Bowen Center breaks ground on new health clinic | News

This new house will supply room to develop with plans so as to add extra therapists and healthcare suppliers with a purpose to tackle not simply psychological well being wants, however bodily well being as effectively.

“Our imaginative and prescient is to enhance entry to income-based care, the place sufferers come to at least one location the place they will see their main care doctor, their therapist, and finally different specialties like a dentist, optometrist, and extra. That multidisciplinary crew will work collectively to enhance and lengthen the lives of our sufferers,” mentioned Dr. Rob Ryan, president and CEO of Bowen Middle.

At present, Bowen Middle is situated in downtown Columbia Metropolis, however leaders acknowledged parking choices are restricted, together with the power to increase. The necessity for a brand new house, and the planning for it, started 4 years in the past. A part of that planning, as famous by Whitley County Bowen Middle Director Mista Lauber, meant reaching out to organizations resembling Neighborhood Corrections, Parkview, the Whitley County Well being Division and others to assemble information and decide what providers had been wanted in Whitley County. What they found, she mentioned, was a necessity for simpler and extra entry to psychological well being and bodily well being help.

“This constructing permits us to mix these wants,” Lauber mentioned. “We’re elated to see bodily and psychological well being providers coming collectively. We hope to total enhance the well being of Whitley County.” She thanked the group leaders, native enforcement and group corrections for his or her partnership, and Dr. Ryan added Bowen Middle will proceed to accomplice with native organizations with a purpose to supply their providers to these in want.

The hope is that afterward the power will have the ability to add dentistry, optometry and pharmacy care to its choices.

“(Will probably be the) place for sufferers to be taken care of, and it’ll take away the limitations of transportation and entry to high quality care (they could have),” he mentioned.

It’s an thrilling improvement for the county and metropolis, as celebrated by Columbia Metropolis Mayor Ryan Daniel.

“This entire hall is admittedly the welcome mat for individuals who come to Columbia Metropolis,” mentioned Mayor Ryan Daniel. “And the truth that Bowen Middle shall be a type of buildings, these first campuses that people will see coming into Columbia Metropolis, I feel is a extremely nice half as a result of it exhibits what an curiosity and an emphasis now we have in healthcare and the wellness of our folks right here in Columbia Metropolis and definitely in Whitley County at massive.”

The mayor thanked Bowen Middle for “investing in our group for our technology and the generations to come back.”

Work has already begun to stage the location, and building is predicted to be accomplished within the Fall of 2023.

These in search of help from the Bowen Middle can attain out by calling 1-800-342-5653 or by visiting bowencenter.org.