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City clinic awaits ruling on need
More than 1,350 family members of city employees may finally get access to the city’s health clinic next month, City Manager David Molgaard said Wednesday.
But if the state Health Care Authority rules that dependants can’t use the wellness center, the facility in the old warehouse building at 601 Morris St. might close, Molgaard said.
Hundreds of spouses and dependents of city employees, plus retirees under the age of 65, have been waiting since January to use the health clinic, Molgaard said. But that’s before city officials learned they would have to obtain a certificate of need from the HCA to let nonemployees use the center.
On-site clinic healthy for bottom line
Mandy del Valle, a nurse practitioner, sees more than two dozen people a week in an exam room in southeastern Lawrence, where she needn’t bother with a waiting room.
Her patients simply walk in off the work floor.
“They don’t even need to clock out,” said del Valle, who contracts to provide health care at Amarr Garage Doors, in East Hills Business Park. “They seem to really like it, too.”
Moreover, it doesn’t cost them a cent.
Amarr officials like the arrangement so much that they’re helping tout the program to other area employers, many of whom are looking for ways to improve employee health, increase company efficiency and — not least of all — ease financial pains for employer and employees alike.
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