FAIRMONT — Officials with WVU Medicine connected Monday dedicated a caller $1.5 cardinal enlargement of the Fairmont Gateway Clinic with a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
The expansion, which volition unfastened to the nationalist connected Jan. 18, adds 11 exam rooms, a process country and 5 rooms that volition enactment gathering operations. The enlargement volition besides bring much jobs to the clinic, which West Virginia University Hospitals President and CEO Michael Grace said is simply a bully thing.
“We volition person to summation our capableness connected the staffing standpoint, but that’s a precise bully happening for WVU Medicine, arsenic good arsenic for the community,” Grace said.
Extra abstraction was built into the installation erstwhile it opened successful 2017 to accommodate imaginable growth. Since then, the session has exceeded expectations for diligent traffic. The session served astir 80,000 patients successful 2022, Grace said. The archetypal 25,000 quadrate ft halfway opened successful 2017 astatine a outgo of $13.9 million.
Fairmont Gateway Clinic Manager Michelle Wilson, who has worked astatine the session since it opened and astatine WVU Medicine for implicit 2 decades, said the enlargement volition assistance chopped hold times successful their busiest departments.
“We show which services summation their diligent load the astir and wherever we person the top hold times. ... We’re adding 2 household medicine providers and an further podiatrist. Also, Urgent Care astir doubled their diligent load successful the past year. We’re moving them and expanding the magnitude of rooms they have, truthful they tin spot patients successful a much timely manner and get radical successful and out,” Wilson said.
Grace said the session serves a antithetic request than WVU Medicine’s Fairmont Medical Center. The session offers behavioral medicine, dermatology, digestive diseases, household medicine, wide surgery, laboratory services, nephrology, OB/GYN, orthopedics, symptom management, podiatry, urgent attraction and urology services.
Both Wilson and Grace agreed that they are excited for the expansion.
“I’m truly arrogant of this session and that it’s gathering the wellness attraction needs of Fairmont and the section area. We person a fantastic radical of providers present and a large squad that are going to assistance marque this productive and prosperous,” Wilson said.
Grace agreed.
“We stay committed to this community, some astatine this location, arsenic good astatine Fairmont Regional Medical Center. ... We’re conscionable truly excited to beryllium successful the Fairmont assemblage and convey you each for your support,” Grace said.
WVU Medicine Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Edmund, who is simply a Marion County native, besides shared words of excitement.
“Anytime that WVU tin supply much attraction for radical successful Marion County, I’m precise blessed astir that. Most of my household inactive lives here, successful Fairmont and Monongah. They payment from the services that are provided present and Fairmont Regional Medical Center. So it’s truly a large thing, I think, that we tin stay committed to the assemblage here,” Edmund said.
For much accusation connected WVU Medicine’s Fairmont Gateway Clinic, sojourn their website.
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