WNY Imaging Group broke ground yesterday for an expansion of their downtown facility, WNY MRI located at 222 Genesee Street (corner of Michigan Avenue) at the edge of the Medical Campus. The ground breaking official ceremony took place with Mayor Byron W. Brown, Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes, and other local dignitaries.
Pink hard hats and gold shovels were highlight of the day for the beginning of the new $2.5 million, two-story, 10,000 sq.ft. addition. It will become the Western New York Women’s Imaging Center, the only diagnostic and imaging center dedicated solely to women in the city.
WNY Imaging Group’s President Dr. Joseph Serghany stated, “My partners and I recognize each and everyday the need to provide quality diagnostic and imaging services to all of our patients and this investment renews our commitment to that and the city of Buffalo as a whole.”
This is the second addition to the complex that was built in 1989 as the first MRI Center in WNY to train radiology residents of the University at Buffalo. It was purchased in 2003 by a group of radiologists headed by their current President, Dr. Joseph Serghany.
In 2003 the facility was doing about four scans per day and now averages approximately 1,500 different scans per month including MRI’s, Mammography, Cat Scans, Ultrasounds, Nuclear Medicine, X-Rays, and Digital Motion X-Rays.
Carmina Wood Morris has designed each phase of the complex. Construction will be managed by R&P Oak Hill.