Lynchburg, Va., Medical Center Set to Open
Posted on: Friday, 29 July 2005, 00:00 CDT
Jul. 28--A year after construction began, Centra Health's Altavista Medical Center is ready to open.
Centra will hold an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday that will include food and beverages and tours of the facility.
Centra is leasing 9,000 square feet of a 32,000-square-foot building owned by the Altavista Volunteer Fire Company Inc. for the center. Centra also paid for the renovation to that space.
The town's two physicians, Dr. Francis Carter and Dr. Ralph Slusher, are employees of Centra Health and will operate a joint practice there.
"We're very excited about the medical center opening," said Carter, calling the new center "quite beautiful and quite an asset to the community."
Carter said he hopes that having a medical center in the Altavista area will attract new physicians as well as provide medical care to more residents.
"I've been trying to attract physicians for 10 years," he said.
The medical center can house up to four physicians, he said.
Tammy Hall-Tweedy, director of Centra Health's medical services organization, said Centra has been working on recruiting another doctor for the center and hopes to hire someone by next year.
The medical center will retain staff from both practices, Hall-Tweedy said, which is about 11 people.
Hall-Tweedy also said the medical center will have new equipment and an on-site lab.
The fire company purchased the old Food Lion building on Main and Seventh streets last year for about $375,000 and will use the rest of the building for its station.
Altavista Fire Company Chief John Tucker said the fire station should be open by the beginning of October. The 20,000-plus square feet designated for the fire station will include five bay doors for the fire company's vehicles when complete.
"The fire station is coming along pretty good," Tucker said.
Workers are developing the building's facade and its interior walls.
Monday will be the medical center's first day of business.
Office hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The medical center will accept walk-in patients as well as appointments. It also will accept Medicaid, Medicare and all major commercial insurance carriers, Hall said.
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