Christus Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute in Longview officially opens - Longview News-Journal

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The Christus Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute officially opened Thursday astatine the NorthPark field successful Longview.

Construction connected the $35 cardinal task began successful July 2021 to alteration the existing Institute for Healthy Living into the caller institute.

In addition, the task has added 27,000 quadrate feet of abstraction astatine NorthPark, including dedicated operating rooms for orthopedic surgical procedures.

The afloat NorthPark enlargement is projected to beryllium implicit by the extremity of autumn 2023.

The Institute for Healthy Living continues to service arsenic a assemblage gym, but has expanded its hours of cognition to 24 hours a day. The institute besides has been integrated into the betterment process of the orthopedic and sports medicine services astatine the facility.

“There is perfectly thing other similar this successful Longview,” Todd Hancock, Good Shepherd Health System president and CEO, said during a July 2021 groundbreaking ceremony. “We are creating the archetypal of its benignant successful Longview — an full field dedicated to orthopedic care.”

The caller field aims to connection 1 centralized determination for patients successful each measurement of the orthopedic healing process, Christus officials antecedently said. That includes an archetypal doc visit, diagnostic imaging, surgery, rehabilitation and recovery.

The NorthPark field was established successful 2014 and includes Christus Good Shepherd’s Emergency Center, imaging halfway and outpatient lab. The offices of Christus Trinity Clinic Obstetrics/Gynecology, Christus Trinity Clinic Pediatrics, ENT Associates of East Texas and Longview Orthopedic Clinic Association besides are astatine NorthPark.

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