This site at Cumberland Professional Campus at 1206 West Sherman Avenue is meant for a professional building that will become a dialysis center.(Photo: Staff photo/Joseph P. Smith)

VINELAND – A major national dialysis clinic operator is the intended user for a new building going up at Cumberland Professional Campus at 1206 W. Sherman Avenue.

Fresenius Medical Care North America already operates more than 60 centers in New Jersey and more than 2,200 across the United States.

The campus has three buildings at present. Like those, the new building will offer 11,247 square feet of space.

The proposed building received Planning Board approval for a relatively minor change to a previously approved site plan.

The site plan change was to add a driveway canopy to shelter arriving patients. The alteration meant the loss of 16 of 61 parking spaces. That is 16 spaces below the ordinance minimum.

Attorney Rocco Tedesco, representing the campus, said the center will have 18 dialysis stations and two examination rooms. Two physicians and a physician assistant are on staff, he said.

Tedesco said the campus has abundant parking even with fewer spaces. Dialysis patients typically require four-hour visits, lessening traffic

The New Jersey Department of Health licenses dialysis centers. A spokeswoman said Fresenius still needs a license for a Vineland center.

Real estate trusts set up for various members of the Galetto and D’Onofrio families own the campus.

The board vote was 7-0. Board Chairman David Manders recused himself.

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