Winslow’s Virginia Mason medical clinic will move to the new Visconsi shopping development on High School Road, the regional health care nonprofit announced Tuesday.

The move is planned for late 2018, officials said.

The Visconsi development, which has been named Wintergreen Walk, is home to a newly built KeyBank branch and a Walgreens drug store. Both businesses opened in mid November.

“The Wintergreen Walk development presents the best opportunity for us to create a medical center that will allow us to expand services and ensure Virginia Mason provides an exceptional setting in which island residents receive remarkable care for generations,” said Dr. Catherine Edwards, section head at Virginia Mason Bainbridge Island Medical Center and a Bainbridge resident.

The Virginia Mason Bainbridge Island Medical Center is currently at 380 Winslow Way East. Virginia Mason said the relocation responds to the growing community’s demand for medical services.

Virginia Mason has been looking in recent years to expand its clinic on Winslow Way, which has been in downtown Winslow for 25 years.

“Our current facility — and the size of the property it is on — limit our ability to expand services as needed to keep pace with the community’s need for high quality health care services,” Edwards said.

The new facility will total 30,000 square feet in size.

The nonprofit organization has sent letters to patients, government and business leaders and others announcing its plan and said representatives have “thoroughly explored numerous options” for a new and larger medical center over the past two years.

Virginia Mason said it will invite patients and other islanders to take part in planning events that focus on the patient experience at the new 30,000-square-foot facility in the Wintergreen Walk development. The dates, times and locations of the public events – which will be hosted by Virginia Mason – will be announced in the coming months.

“One of our top priorities is to build the right facility in the right setting with input from families who cherish this island community and call it their home,” Edwards said.

“We are very mindful of the potential impacts of new development,” she said. “We are grateful to be part of this special community and for the opportunity to call a new corner of it the future home of our medical center.”

Virginia Mason officials said its Winslow medical center will operate as usual until the move in 2018.

The Winslow Way facility is open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Services provided by the medical center staff include adult and family medicine, orthopedics, heart care, advanced imaging, lab services, and urgent care for treatment of injuries and illnesses not considered life-threatening.

The city’s hearing examiner approved Wintergreen Walk, then known as the Visconsi development after the name of its Ohio-based developers, in March 2014.

The development was highly controversial on Bainbridge, as some said the new businesses were not needed and would compete with established ones downtown. Opponents to the development announced a boycott of the businesses that would locate there.

For a time, city officials considered locating the city’s new police station at Wintergreen Walk, but negotiations with Visconsi did not come to fruition.