New buildings show health care growth in Moses Lake
Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald The new offices of Omni Medical Staffing at 1800 Clover Drive, right next to Moses Lake High School's new tennis courts, and not far from the site Samaritan Health Care selected for its new hospital.
MOSES LAKE — Omni Staffing Services is getting a new home.
The Moses Lake-based medical staffing company is building a new, 13,000-square-foot office building valued at $1.6 million at 1800 Clover Drive, on the corner of Clover and Pilgrim Street, not far from the proposed new home of Samaritan Hospital. And it is just down the street from where Omni is currently located.
“We’re moving our company,” said Omni CEO Corbin Moberg. “We need a little bit bigger building.”
With offices in Moses Lake and Spokane, Moberg said Omni is the largest per diem medical staffing company in the state, with 500 active workers statewide. Per diem medical employees work on a daily basis “as needed,” and often fill in gaps or assist with extra work in hospitals, clinics and even Grant County Health District.
Moberg said Omni only expects to use around 5,000 square feet of the new building. Othello-based Ashton Financial and “a couple of doctors” are taking up at least a portion of the rest of the space.
However, Moberg added that they are still “waiting for the perfect client” to occupy the rest of the building, which he expects will be finished in September.
Omni isn’t the only new medical building going up in Moses Lake right now. Around the corner, on East Colonial Avenue, Daniel Morehouse, the owner of Inland Hearing Aids, at 831 E. Colonial, is constructing a 6,000-square-foot commercial building valued at $785,500 right next door at 827 E. Colonial, according to a building permit issued in March by the city of Moses Lake.
“The building is more of an investment,” Morehouse said. “We’re putting up a little medical building there.”
Samaritan Hospital announced that it will build its new facility on Clover Street between Yonezawa Boulevard and Pilgrim Street. Construction was slated to begin this summer, but the start of work has been delayed and no estimate of when it will begin has been given.
Finally, Moses Lake-based Visionsource Properties, a limited liability corporation with Gregg and Carlynn Jones listed as the corporation’s governors, are building a 3,000-square-foot building valued at $370,000 on Fifth Street across from the Moses Lake Library, according to a building permit issued at the end of January 2020.
According to the permit, the building is set to be a chiropractor office.
Charles H. Featherstone can be reached at cfeatherstone@columbiabasinherald.com.