AMITA Health Prepares to Unveil New Outpatient Facility Offering 'One-Stop Shopping' in Retail-like Setting in Carol Stream
AMITA Health this month will open a 25,000-square-foot outpatient facility that will provide convenient access to comprehensive outpatient services in a retail-like setting in Carol Stream, Illinois.
The AMITA Health Immediate Care and Outpatient Center is scheduled to open Monday, Oct. 23, in part of a former big-box store at 630 E. North Avenue in the DuPage County village.
The public is invited to tour the center and to meet its health care providers between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, when AMITA Health will host a Fall Festival/Family Fun Open House at the facility. The
event will feature refreshments and activities such as face painting, a bounce house and pumpkin decorating.
At a time when medical clinics are popping up increasingly at grocery stores and drugstores, "we want
our services to be conveniently available in a pull-up, park and walk-in kind of setting like people are used to in retail," said Patricia Cassidy, AMITA Health senior vice president and chief strategy officer. "We want to have services spread throughout the community so there can be more diagnostic imaging, more specialty care and
other services available where people live and work."
In addition to having convenient access to the new sites, patients will benefit from "one-stop shopping" because the sites will feature comprehensive services, Cassidy said. The Carol Stream center, which will feature 42 examination rooms, will provide immediate-care services with no appointment for minor, non-emergency conditions and injuries, such as coughs and colds, broken bones and lacerations. It also will offer access to a medical team consisting of four primary-care physicians and eight specialty providers, including specialists in gastroenterology, ear, nose and throat, and obstetrics and gynecology.
In addition, patients will have access by appointment to behavioral health therapists. Other services offered by the center to AMITA Health Medical Group patients will include X-rays, ultrasound testing and lab services such as blood testing and urinalysis.
"To enhance the continuity and flow of care for patients is such a wonderful benefit of these ambulatory-care locations," said Reinhold Llerena, M.D., chief medical officer of the AMITA Health Medical Group. "From an office visit with the primary-care physician or specialist to the ability to draw blood or perform imaging studies, a patient can experience so many levels of care in a single location. One site, so many services - this is a win for patients."
An electronic medical record system will allow the center's physicians to access the hospital records of
patients who visit the facility for follow-up appointments after being discharged from an AMITA Health
hospital.
The one-level facility, which has a large parking lot just outside its main entrance, will be simple to
navigate. Patients will be able to park, walk in and connect with the services they need through a single
reception area. The center will be open year-round, including holidays. Regular hours will be 8 a.m. to 8:30
p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
For more information about the center and its upcoming open house, or to make an appointment with a physician, call 855.692.6482.
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About AMITA Health
AMITA Health (www.AMITAhealth.org) is a joint operating company formed by Adventist Midwest Health, part
of the Adventist Health System in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and Alexian Brothers Health System, a subsidiary
of St. Louis-based Ascension. Headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, AMITA Health is the third-largest
health system in the state, encompassing nine hospitals and an extensive physician provider network of more
than 3,000 physicians. AMITA Health's mission is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus by delivering the most efficient, highest quality, faith-based care possible.