• IU Health opens one of largest family medicine centers in Indiana
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    IU Health opens one of largest family medicine centers in Indiana

    IU Health has opened a $10 million state-of-the-art out-patient family medicine center on the site of the former Wishard Hospital emergency room near Indiana Avenue and 10th Street. The need was created when the former primary care medical center along Senate Avenue was demolished to make way for the new IU Health Hospital on the medical campus in downtown Indianapolis. The IU Health Family Medicine Center, 1040 Wishard Blvd., will accommodate more than 60 providers while addressing patient needs; with more than 40 doctors in training IU School of Medicine has the largest family medicine residency program in the state. Here’s what you need to know about the center that…

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  • UT Southwestern opens first academic medical center campus for southern Dallas County: Newsroom
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    UT Southwestern opens first academic medical center campus for southern Dallas County: Newsroom

    DALLAS – Sept. 17, 2022 – Thousands of residents, business owners, and regional leaders gathered Saturday at the community celebration for the opening of UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird, the largest of its regional campuses and the first to bring academic medicine to the booming southern Dallas region. The two-story, 150,000-square-foot campus is UT Southwestern’s sixth regional outpatient medical center offering a multitude of services in primary, heart, and cancer care. The facility also provides lab services, a full-service pharmacy, and advanced imaging technologies such as MRI and CT scans, along with women’s health services such as mammography. Specialty care to come later this year includes neurological services from the Peter O’Donnell Jr.…

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  • New West Texas clinic opens in rural health care desert
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    New West Texas clinic opens in rural health care desert

    Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. RALLS — The new Ralls Family Medicine Clinic is a quaint building with big ambitions: to be an oasis in a health care desert. It has a small waiting room with open windows to let the sun shine after several days of rain. Two receptionists greet incoming patients. There are two waiting rooms and an office for the primary caregiver, John Hodges. The clinic is a welcome lifeline for many in the small town and the rest of Crosby County. On a recent Thursday morning, Hodges walked one of his…

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