MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC)- A new medical building is coming to the Lowcountry that will be located directly across from the East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant.

The chief strategy officer for the East Cooper Medical Center, Thomas Hayden, said that the 2-story, 40,000-square-foot medical facility will be called the Center for Women's Health

"It will be a centralized place where women from our community can find the best doctors all under one roof to continue the legacy of East Cooper," Hayden said. "At its foundation women's health has always been important to the community and we're excited to see that into this next phase."

Novant Health owns the East Cooper Medical Center and Hayden said that they will also own this new women's medical center.

He said that the new facility will provide a variety of women's health services.

"Once the building is complete, we will be co-locating a number of services so that the women in our community can expect to see obstetrics and gynecology, maternal fetal medicine for high-risk pregnancies, neonatology, breast surgery, pelvic medicine and of course a mammography will be in the building," Hayden said.

He said they are expecting preparation of the construction site to begin in the first quarter of next year. Once that starts Hayden said he predicts the facility will open in 18 months.

He said that the opening of this new facility is important, saying that since the beginning East Cooper Medical Center has always strived to take care of the women in the community.

"We affirm our commitment to women's health which started East Cooper," Hayden said. "You'd be hard to find a neighbor or a friend or family member whose child wasn't born either at our old hospital or at our new hospital and we're continuing that legacy to take care of all of the women at different stages of their life."