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St. John's offers north-Springfield urgent care services
Oct. 2, 2001
St. John's has opened an urgent care clinic at 1640 E. Kearney in North Springfield in the Northside Health Services building. The clinic takes walk-in business only 8 a.m.
- 10 p.m. Monday - Friday and noon - 8 p.m. Saturday. Doctors there will provide treatment of minor injuries and illnesses that need immediate treatment, but aren't an emergency.
The opening of the clinic is the first step in an initiative to provide comprehensive urgent care services throughout Springfield and the region.
Next up is a larger clinic in northwest Springfield to provide occupational medicine, physical therapy and cardiac rehab services.
"We have purchased a building next to Northwest Family Care on West Kearney. We are going to remodel that building into an urgent care, workers' comp and rehab facility," he said. He said about 15-20 employees will staff the new facility.
Brownsworth said once the facility opens next year, the new urgent care practice will move there and St. John's physicians will rotate in to provide care. St. John's already provides after-hours care at Smith-Glynn-Callaway Urgent Care in south Springfield, but the new clinic will provide those much-needed services to north Springfield and Willard, Brownsworth said.
"This will make our presence in that location much more extensive," Brownsworth said. "From a delivery standpoint, the reason we chose that facility is because of accessibility
- easy access from Kearney, Kansas Expressway, Highway 13 and
I-44. That area is community-dense, and it's a convenient course from both the east and west industrial complexes."
Northwest Family Care employs three family practice physicians - Mark Emenecker, D.O., Naomi Purdy, M.D., and Oran Ringen, M.D. Another north-Springfield clinic, Northside Health Services, located on East Kearney and employs two physicians Sam Crow, D.O., and Mark Ward, M.D.
Willard Medical Center, located on East Jackson in Willard, employs Michael Bennett, M.D., and Shari Kelm, M.D.
Smith-Glynn Urgent Care physician Daniel Bosso, M.D., said he may provide coverage when the new clinic opens and that he is also coordinating physicians from his clinic to rotate there.
Brownsworth said occupational medicine specialist Jim Jordan, M.D., will practice at the new facility. Jordan currently practices at Smith-Glynn-Callaway Medical Building.
"We're looking at placing Dr. Jordan on the north side of town so that businesses and industry can have easier access to him. We will retain a physician on the south side to work with Dr. Jordan," he said. "Occupational medicine specialists provide care for employees who have an injury or illness related to their occupation. Dr. Jordan is board-certified as an occupational medicine specialist."
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