Lexington Medical Center has purchased 65 acres in Lexington for $10 million, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. Becker’s based its report on an Aug. 22 article in Charleston’s Post and Courier newspaper. The Post and Courier report.

Lexington Medical Center, according to the P&C, said there are not any immediate plans for construction at the 65-acre site. The newspaper also reported that the property is roughly the size of LMC’s main hospital campus on Sunset Boulevard in West Columbia.

U.S. News & World Report named Lexington Medical Center as the best hospital in the Columbia Metro area, earlier this year.

According to Becker’s Hospital Review The site is close to Lexington in an area of high residential concentration.

Also from Becker’s: “The purchase adds to Lexington Medical Center’s expansion in recent years. The health system has also purchased a 15-acre site and has been involved in a number of capital projects, including an $80 million outpatient center completed in March 2021.”

Lexington Medical Center and the University of South Carolina broke ground in West Columbia on a multi-story, 52,000-sqft. College of Nursing in February.

A Graduate Medical Education building, for primary care physicians, is expected to be complete by May 2024.

Work is progressing on the new Lexington Medical Center Cayce Urgent Care facility on Knox-Abbott Drive in Cayce. It is scheduled to open in December of 2023.