Southern West Virginia Health System, a Lincoln Primary Care Center company, cut the ribbon Friday, July 26, in celebration of the official opening of its first Kanawha County-based facility, a healthcare center dedicated to a medical home model of care.
Located at 1563 Sand Plant Road in South Charleston, just off Corridor G near Alum Creek, Southern West Virginia Health System – Sand Plant is a newly-constructed 15,900 square foot healthcare center that was made possible by $3,478,347 in funding from an Affordable Care Act Capital Development grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The healthcare center offers comprehensive family medicine care, urgent care, women’s health services, x-ray services and laboratory services alongside an on-site 340B and retail pharmacy that is complete with a drive-thru.
“We are pleased about becoming a part of the Kanawha County community,” says Lincoln Primary Care Center and Southern West Virginia Health System CEO, Brian Crist. “Southern West Virginia Health System – Sand Plant represents an important step in our goal of improving access to quality, affordable healthcare to the people of South Charleston and beyond.”
Southern West Virginia Health System – Sand Plant is open every Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., offering care to members of the community by appointment or on a walk-in basis. The medical home model of care on which it focuses will deliver full-service preventive and primary care designed around the specific needs of each patient it serves. Care will take a team-centered approach with the healthcare team giving attention to each patient’s needs as a whole-person, integrating all aspects of care with a goal of improving patients’ physical health, behavioral health, access to community-based social services and management of chronic conditions.
Experienced medical providers, Chad Adkins, DO, Lisa Queen, FNP-C, and Jacqui Ranson, FNP-C, along with pharmacists Joey Anderson, RPh, and Jerry Skeenes, RPh, staff the health center and are actively welcoming patients of all ages.
Affordable care is an important part of Southern West Virginia Health System’s mission. Its Sand Plant site holds distinction as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and as such, ensures the availability of healthcare services to all, regardless of a patient’s insurance status or ability to pay. Patients will be offered a wide selection of payment options, including acceptance of private and commercial insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and WV CHIP. Qualified patients will also be eligible to receive discounted health services through the organization’s Sliding Fee Program and will have access to the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program and the Vaccine for Children program.
As a further means of supporting its patients, the Lincoln Primary Care Center and Southern West Virginia Health System network will be hiring patient navigators in the fall of 2013 to support the Affordable Care Act legislation that becomes effective in 2014. Patient navigators will support the medical home team by helping uninsured patients when it comes to evaluating and selecting the right health insurance options to meet their needs.
Southern West Virginia Health System and its lead agency, Lincoln Primary Care Center, together operate 12 FQHCs and school-based health programs across Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan and Mingo counties.
To learn more about Southern West Virginia Health System, or to make an appointment with Dr. Adkins or nurse practitioners, Lisa Queen and Jacqui Ranson, at the Sand Plant health care center, please call 304-756-1500. To contact the Southern West Virginia Health System – Sand Plant Pharmacy, please call 304-756-2770.
The Sand Plant Health Center.
