Guthrie Clinic collaborates with Cortland firm on the new facility    

CORTLANDVILLE, N.Y. — The Guthrie Cortland Renzi Health Campus at 4057 West Road in the town of Cortlandville opened to patients on Dec. 9, following its formal-opening event on Dec. 3.

The health-care provider says it worked on the project with the McNeil Development Company of Cortland, “bringing new life” to the former JM Murray Center, “choosing to redevelop a vacant property that holds fond memories” for the Cortland community.

“They say it takes a community to raise a child. I like to say it takes a community to raise a community,” David McNeil, owner of the McNeil Development Company, said in the Guthrie announcement. “We have got to continue working together to provide the resources that make a community healthy. Our health care organizations need to provide a high level of quality care in our community, so our residents do not have to travel. There is no one person that can do it by themself.”

The 32,000-square-foot Guthrie Cortland Renzi Health Campus will initially offer imaging, lab, walk-in and expanded primary-care services in a primary-care clinic named in honor of Deborah and Stephen Geibel, according to a Guthrie Clinic announcement.

Beginning this spring, the new space will include multiple specialty-care services, including orthopedics, general surgery, plastic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pain management. The facility also will be home to a telemedicine hub, expanding virtual access to Guthrie experts from across its health system.

Cortland–area donor Nicholas Renzi has pledged $1 million to the new facility, which placed the Renzi name on the health-care campus.

“At Guthrie, we invest when and where there is a need, and we will continue to do so, because we understand the challenges of accessing health care in rural communities,” Edmund Sabanegh, president and CEO of the Guthrie Clinic, said in the announcement. “Through generous gifts such as Nick’s, we’re able to set the standard for rural health care across the nation by delivering innovative, compassionate, and accessible medical services tailored to the unique needs of rural communities.”

At the time of his retirement in 1994, Renzi was serving as senior VP of Pall Corporation, per a Jan. 7, 2021 article on the website of the Central New York Community Foundation. Pall Corp. operates a facility in the Cortland area.

“It has been a privilege and a pleasure to support this new health campus project,” Renzi said in the Guthrie announcement. “The consolidation of existing Guthrie medical services into one building together with the requisite support services is a major step in making The Guthrie Clinic a leader in the Cortland community. For a small town, we have health care facilities that are well suited to service the needs of our people in terms of the breadth of services, availability of services, and the competency of the medical professionals and staff.”

The nonprofit Guthrie Clinic — which is headquartered in Sayre, Pennsylvania — describes itself as a multispecialty health system integrating clinical and hospital care along with research and education. It has six hospital campuses and a network of outpatient facilities across 13 counties.