Columbia Orthopaedic Group’s new Pain Management Center officially opened with a ribbon cutting and remarks from COG officials on Wednesday, September 9.
The Pain Center, part of the COG complex at 1 S. Keene St., is a roughly 6,000-square-foot addition with four procedure rooms performing 50 to 75 procedures daily, with the capacity to handle 100 to 150 procedures a day. Dr. Brian Kleiber, president of the Surgical Center at COG, said the center anticipates 7,000 total procedures this year and more than 10,000 next year.
Coil Construction was the general contractor for the project.
“It was very important to Columbia Orthopaedic Group that the facility remain open with little impact on the patient experience,” David Coil, president of Coil Construction, said in a news release. “We were very intentional about coordinating closely with our suppliers and contractors to get it right the first time and keep the project moving forward.”
He said the company’s close collaboration with COG allowed it to deliver “a state-of-the-art facility as quickly as possible with minimal disruption to the existing facility.”
At the Columbia Chamber Ambassadors ribbon-cutting event, Lisa Leathers, administrator of the Surgery Center and Pain Center at COG, thanked Central Bank of Boone County and Peckham Stockton Architects for their partnership throughout this project. She also pointed out the role that Coil Construction and the team of local subcontractors “who took our vision and turned it into the beautiful facility we’re standing in front of today.”
“Many of you pointed out during the project that you were a previous patient returning the favor — or a prospective patient paying it forward,” Leathers said. “And it all goes to show, community matters. So, most importantly, thank you to our community for continuing to trust us with your care.”
COG pain management physician Dr. Brad Noble noted the timing of the center’s opening.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence. September is Pain Awareness Month,” he said. “Every year at this time, clinicians and patient advocates across the country work to bring attention to something that too often goes unspoken. Chronic pain is invisible.”
He added, “People carry it to work, to church, to their kids’ ball games, and most of the time nobody around them knows. There is no better month to open these doors, and no better community to open them in.”
