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October 14, 2008
Marquette General Heath System, Shopko
to host open house at FastCare clinic October 16
Marquette General FastCare will be holding an open house Thursday, October 16,
from 2 - 6 p.m., at the Escanaba Shopko store inside the Delta Plaza Mall. The ribbon cutting is set for 4 p.m.
The event is designed to acquaint consumers with the retail heath clinic, which offers convenient and economical basic health care services. MGHS Nurse Practitioner Bonita Moisio and Physician Assistant Stephen Messimer, who staff the clinic, will be on hand.
The public is invited for light refreshments and snacks, giveaways for children, and drawings for multiple items, including a grand prize drawing for a Nintendo Wii Gaming System.
Marquette General FastCare provides health care services for the general public, not just MGHS patients, for minor conditions and symptoms. The cost for a FastCare visit is $45, which includes an exam and most lab tests, and can be billed to the patient’s insurance carrier. Among the types of conditions seen and treated are sore throat, fever, flu and cold, ear and sinus infection, and allergies.
Marquette General FastCare takes walk-in patients only, ages 18 months and older, and waits are non-existent or minimal. Should there be a wait, people can take a silent pager that can be used in the store and will alert patients when the provider is ready.
Marquette General FastCare has convenient hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sundays 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., and holidays that Shopko is open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Patients can also expect faster pharmacy service, based on immediate transmittal of prescriptions to the Shopko pharmacy or the pharmacy of the patient’s choice.
To ensure quality services, Marquette General FastCare has followed the attributes for retail clinics as defined by the American Academy of Family Physicians. These include offering to send each person’s primary care physician a report following the visit, having a well-defined and limited scope of clinical services with treatment plans that are evidence-based, and having a system for referring patients to physicians when symptoms exceed the clinic’s scope of services.
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