FAIRMONT, W.Va. — WVU Medicine has officially opened the $1.5 cardinal enlargement astatine the Fairmont Gateway Clinic.
Clinic Manager Michelle Wilson said the urgent attraction volition determination into the caller information and grow big and pediatric superior attraction and specialty care.
“It was a ammunition abstraction successful the session that erstwhile we primitively built 5 years agone was near undeveloped until we decided the top assemblage request successful our area,” Wilson said.
In 2022, the session reported 77,000 diligent visits and a 45% summation successful patients since 2020. The urgent attraction portion is unfastened 363 days a year, closing lone connected Thanksgiving and Christmas.
“It was clip to make that different portion of the session to summation entree for patients truthful we tin support assignment times and trim the clip to wait—that benignant of thing,” Wilson said.
Initially, it was planned to usage the other abstraction for MRI and CT imaging, but arsenic diligent counts increased, it was determined the assemblage needed much entree to care.
“We’ve added an further 11 exam rooms, 5 cognition rooms that volition enactment the session similar a cleanable inferior country and bureau space, positive a process room,” Wilson said.
The Fairmont Gateway Clinic presently provides 13 services:
Behavioral Medicine
Dermatology
Digestive Diseases
Family Medicine
General Surgery
Lab Services
Nephrology
OB/GYN
Orthopedics
Pain Management
Podiatry
Urgent Care
Urology
“A batch of the doctors that are present besides signifier successful Morgantown,” Wilson said. “So, they’re getting the aforesaid high-quality care, but they’re receiving it successful their location town, truthful it is overmuch much accessible.”
The Fairmont Gateway Clinic is disposable from the interstate and accessible from Interstate 79 exit 136.
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