Our relationship with Jennie Stuart Medical Center began in 1994 with a medical office building and over the course of almost 17 years, we’ve worked with them on nearly $60 million in projects to grow and enhance what has become a 600,000 square foot campus located in the heart of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The list of projects that span an initial master plan, a five-year electrical and mechanical plan, and a campus development plan, is extensive – a medical mall, ER, 3-story addition, surgical center, ICU, OB, and on and on.
It is quite fitting that we’ve chosen to feature this relationship to celebrate today, April 1, 2011, our official 20th anniversary. You see, all three of our founders – Ed Johnson, David Johnson, and Bruce Crabtree – have a connection to Jennie Stuart. All three of the current principals – David Johnson, David Brown and Julia Covington – have involvement with the folks at Jennie Stuart. And, in fact, every member of the JJCA team has had, or does have, a hand in the ongoing projects there.
Michael Speck, the project architect for Jennie Stuart, will tell you that his first timesheet from 1997 has Jennie Stuart on it, and it has been that way ever since. He’ll also tell you that this is a very special relationship. Though very serious work results from design meetings in which CEO Eric Lee and facilities director Jim King are very involved, all formalities are out the window and a casualness reserved for the most comfortable of relationships allows the work to be both successful and fun. (There have been several mountain and lake retreats over the years.) To return the favor of having key people from the hospital providing critical, ongoing input to the design process, Michael has helped patients find their way across the vast campus. We truly love working with our friends at Jennie Stuart and are humbled by Eric Lee’s kind words in his testimonial about our history with the hospital.
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