FAIRMONT, W.Va (WDTV) - WVU Medicine officials chopped the ribbon connected a $1.5 cardinal enlargement of the Fairmont Gateway Clinic connected Monday.
Since the Clinic opened successful 2017, it has exceeded expectations for session volume.
Officials said determination were 77,000 diligent visits successful 2022. It has seen a 45 percent summation successful diligent volumes since 2020, with galore of those patients visiting the Urgent Care.
The archetypal operation included ammunition abstraction primitively intended for MRI and CT imaging.
When WVU Medicine Fairmont Medical Center opened successful 2020, entree to precocious radiology services returned to the community.
Now, officials said that abstraction volition beryllium utilized to adhd 11 rooms and a process country to the clinic, expanding big and pediatric superior care, specialty care, and Urgent Care services.
“Because we person had specified an unthinkable effect from Marion, Monongalia, and Harrison counties, we are bursting astatine the seams,” Michelle Wilson, WVU Medicine Fairmont Gateway Clinic manager, said. “This enlargement is going to let america to determination our Urgent Care into the caller information of the building, providing much diligent rooms and easier entree to X-ray. Our different services volition capable successful the abstraction antecedently occupied by Urgent Care, expanding the fig of disposable diligent rooms for appointments.”
The Fairmont Gateway Clinic presently provides 13 services:
- Behavioral Medicine
- Dermatology
- Digestive Diseases
- Family Medicine
- General Surgery
- Lab Services
- Nephrology
- OB/GYN
- Orthopaedics
- Pain Management
- Podiatry
- Urgent Care
- Urology
“This is simply a assemblage investment,” Darin Rogers, WVU Medicine vice president of supplier web services and main ambulatory operations officer, said. “We are moving hand-in-hand with the enactment astatine Fairmont Medical Center to find what services are a amended acceptable for the infirmary oregon session settings, truthful we tin champion conscionable the needs of our patients.”
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