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elbow room
BIENVILLE ORTHOPAEDIC SPECIALISTS
OPENING NEW FACILITY
T story by Susan Ruddiman photos courtesy of Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists
he largest orthopaedic practice in Mississippi together for patient comfort and convenience. Besides is about to get more elbow room. Bienville having the latest in imaging equipment and services, Orthopaedic Specialists moves its Ocean there will be an extensive physical therapy area for Springs office this month into a $10 million patients who undergo rehabilitation after procedures. state-of-the-art facility at 6300 East Lake “The different equipment — from stationery bicycles Blvd. in Gautier. The 50,000-square-foot and treadmills to an indoor running track and batting
building is located on 16 acres at the northeast quadrant of the Interstate 10 and Mississippi 57
cage for the rehabilitation of athletes — will help all the patients,” Thigpen said.
Phase II of Bienville Medical Park will be a 5,000-square-foot Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) building that will open in the summer of 2017, and Phase III will be another medical office complex.
Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists employs around
200 people. While the Ocean Springs facility will close when Bienville Medical Park opens, other locations will remain open. There are offices at 1720- A Medical Park Drive at Cedar Lake in Biloxi, 3615 Hospital Rd in Pascagoula, 15476 Dedeaux Road in Gulfport, and 57 Dewey St in Lucedale.
Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists was established by one physician, Dr. John K. Drake, 35 years ago. Today, the practice has 5 locations, 7 nurse practitioners/ physician assistants, 7 certified therapists and
18 doctors with specialties ranging from general orthopaedics to hand, spine, sports medicine, shoulder, and more.
Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists
6300 East Lake Blvd.,Gautier, MS 228.230.BONE (2663) • www.BienvilleOrtho.com
Dean Thigpen, CEO of Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists
interchange. The staff will be leaving behind a 9,300-square-foot complex they long outgrew on Bienville Boulevard in Ocean Springs.
“We will have a world class all- inclusive orthopaedic facility,” said Dean Thigpen, CEO of Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists. “Our strategy is to provide excellent
and comprehensive orthopaedic health care for the residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.”
Christian Dosé, Director of
Facilities, has worked closely with physicians, the architect, a medical facility designer and the construction company to oversee the completion of
Phase I of Bienville Medical Park.
“It’s been very exciting to see the key elements come
together,” Dosé said.
One of the design innovations has been to increase
the number of examination rooms and to group them
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