Medsource moves into old Advocate-Messenger building

The old Advocate-Messenger building at 330 S. Fourth Street in Danville is getting new life, as Medsource has moved in.

Ephraim McDowell Health has renovated the back half of the building for Medsource, and they are still working on the front part of the building for something else to go in.

The newspaper occupied the building from 1985 to 2022. The building had a printing press in the basement, a darkroom, newsroom and many offices.

Medsource held a ribbon cutting June 25 for the new space. Medsource sells home medical equipment to patients leaving the hospital, and delivers supplies to Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, which is right across the street.

They offer first aid supplies, CPAP masks, BIPAP, home ventilators, hospital beds, walking aids, and anything else people need after leaving the hospital. People can buy or rent the equipment.

Medsource was previously located at 150 S. Third Street, also just across from EMRMC.

Medsource Director Richard Lyons said the new bigger space allows them to store more medical equipment and have more on hand, instead of going back and forth to their off-site warehouse. Now their warehouse is just in the basement.

Lyons said the new space also has much more and safer parking for patients to pick up supplies.

“The most important thing to us is safety for our patients, as we have a parking lot now for them instead of having them park on the street or in the parking garage,” Lyons said.

Ephraim McDowell CEO Dan McKay thanked Lyons and the staff at Medsource for completing the successful move-in.

“I appreciate our staff and the care they provide our patients every day,” Lyons said.

This isn’t the first time Medsource has occupied an old Advocate-Messenger space. Before they were at the 150 S. Third Street location, Medsource occupied a building at the corner of Walnut and Fourth Streets, which has since been torn down, that the Advocate-Messenger had been in before the 330 S. Fourth Street location.

Medsource now occupies the back part of the building and part of the basement.

The big open room that was the Advocate newsroom with many reporters back in the day was subdivided into smaller storage rooms and offices.

The basement room that once housed the printing press is now a big warehouse with shelves of medical supplies. The hospital plant ops occupy the other part of the basement, which allows them to have a bigger space than before.

The front part of the building is still under renovation.

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