THUNDER BAY – The city's south side is seeing a new addition that will bring some much-needed services to the area.
Fort W. Medical Clinic located at 421 Victoria Avenue East, is a new three-in-one health clinic, dental office, and pharmacy is nearing completion of construction and is looking forward to serving the residents of the area.
“It’s kind of a collaborate effort, so, we’ve always had a vision of having a one-stop shop for health care, so we’re going to be working in a collaborative way where everyone works together to take care of patient’s needs, whether it’s from their medication perspective, we’ll also be having different social services for counselling and things like that,” said pharmacist Jessy Sahota.
“And in the future, not only will we stick with the services here, we’ll also try to partner with other services in the community to make sure that we’re taking care of patients in a kind of holistic approach and making sure that all their needs are being taken care of.”
Both the pharmacy and the health clinic will be divided into two separate portions to be able to streamline patients for both the methadone clinic and the family healthcare services so that it will be easier for patients of both services to receive the care that they require at the clinic.
“This is an underserved area, according to the research that we did, there was a great need for services to be brought to this area,” said Sahota.
“We thought we would, kind of, go against the grain and bring high-end medical services to this area which was highly underserved, so that was the motivation for coming to this particular area here.”
While many businesses are moving out of the area, the fact that new practices and businesses are moving in could be a sign of a revitalization of the city’s south core.
The pharmacy portion of the clinic is now open, the medical portion of the clinic hopes to open in December with the dental portion following up in the first quarter of 2022.
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