Brasfield & Gorrie Completes New Critical Access Hospital in Mississippi

December 30, 2014

Construction of Baptist Medical Center-Leake completed

Birmingham, Ala. (Dec. 30, 2014) – Brasfield & Gorrie today announced the completion of the new Baptist Medical Center-Leake in Carthage, Mississippi. This new hospital is owned and operated by Baptist Health Systems in Jackson, Mississippi.

The 54,690 sq ft, 25-bed critical access hospital includes an emergency department, radiology suite, specialty clinic, pharmacy, laboratory, patient wing, dietary and food services area, and ancillary spaces. The facility also includes state-of-the-art amenities, such as a new 16-slice computed tomography scanner.

Brasfield & Gorrie teamed with Dean and Dean/Associates architects on this $14 million construction project for Baptist Health Systems. The project began in November 2013 and was completed ahead of schedule.

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About Brasfield & Gorrie

Celebrating 50 years in business, Brasfield & Gorrie is one of the nation’s largest privately held construction firms, providing general contracting, design-build, and construction management services for a wide variety of markets, including healthcare, commercial, institutional, federal, municipal, industrial, infrastructure, and water/wastewater treatment. We serve clients from offices in Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina. Brasfield & Gorrie has approximately 2,600 employees, and its 2013 revenues were $2.3 billion. Engineering News-Record ranks Brasfield & Gorrie 22ndamong the nation’s “Top 400 Contractors” for 2014.