National HealthCare Corporation has broken ground on NHC-Maury Regional Transitional Care Center, a joint venture between NHC and Maury Regional Medical Center.

The $18.3 million skilled nursing and transitional care center is a single-story center totaling more than 73,500 square feet and will include 104 skilled nursing beds, of which 98 will be private patient rooms. When completed in he fall of 2016, the new center will replace the existing 92-bed NHC Healthcare-Hillview. Patients in the existing 20-bed Maury Regional Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing Unit, which NHC has managed, will be transferred to other area NHC centers.