After months of building anticipation, the Sumner County Family Care Center will be packing up and moving out to their new location Friday.
The clinic will be relocating to the old Orscheln’s building — located at 507 E. 16th — which has been transformed into a modern, state of the art doctor’s facility.
Next weekend, clinic staff and family members will help move the clinic into the new space. The new location will open the following Monday morning.
Office Manager Darla McGovern says after 12 years of being at Sumner Regional Medical Center, the clinic simply outgrew their space and had to relocate.
Boxes with patient information and office supplies are already strewn around the clinic as details are being finished up at the new location and staff gets ready for the big move.
“We are taking whatever we can out of the patient rooms up here and hanging it up on the walls over there, ordering all the extra supplies we are going to be needing for the new clinic ... we are hoping the contractors will be out by this weekend ... other than that, it’s good to go,” McGovern said.
Local people were used as much as possible in the construction and renovation of the clinic.
“We kept it as local as we could and that helps us with costs and helps drive business in the area,” McGovern said.
Local photographer Susan Treft of Susan’s Portraits and local artist Skeet Sirmons will have photographs and paintings with local flare on display at the clinic as well, McGovern said.
Staff and patients are getting antsy to get into the new building.
“Oh we are ready to break it in. The staff here is ready to get in and get organized because we are kind of living in disorganization right now. It’s hard because we’ve been here for 12 years in this location so we will get to purge some things that we don’t need,” McGovern said.
The task to move is huge and, luckily, the clinic has until the end of March to vacate.
“We’ll have all that time to move all of our charts that are in storage in the basement. We actually have 196 boxes...downstairs in storage,” said McGovern.
In addition to the clinic moving, Wellington Health Mart and Olen Medical Supply will be available to residents and patients.
Olen Medical Supply has been open since Monday and will be located in a Suite inside the clinic building. The medical supply store provides durable medical equipment including bath safety aids, wheelchairs, scooters, walkers, splints and braces, electric lift chairs, electric hospital beds, and blood pressure monitors.
Lynn Shaffer of Caldwell Pharmacy says the Wellington Health Mart, which he will be opening with his wife, Barbara, will be located in the parking lot adjacent to the clinic. The pharmacy will boast a drive-thru window for customer convenience as well as restaurant-style coasters that will buzz when a prescription is ready.
No date has been set for the opening yet, as paperwork to open the pharmacy is still being put together.
“We hope to be open some time in March, but it depends on the state,” Shaffer said.
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