REDHS chief executive Mary Manescu and nurses Jamie Lee Close, Melissa Seelenmeyer and Edith Nzegwu outside the rebuilt Urgent Care Clinic.
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Emily Donohoe
Rochester Elmore District Health Service has welcomed its first patients to its newly reopened urgent care clinic.
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Staff treated their first client at 8.29am, one minute ahead of the 8.30am opening, on Tuesday, January 28. By noon, five patients had used the service.
REDHS staff were delighted to be back in action, some 838 days after the facility was evacuated in October 2022.
The team can assist with concerns such as abdominal pain, asthma, breathing difficulties, chest pain and pressure, cuts and minor burns, dressings, general injuries, wound care and pain management.
REDHS chief executive Mary Manescu, nurses Jamie Lee Close, Melissa Seelenmeyer and Edith Nzegwu, and one of the centre’s first clients, Wayne Park (centre).
Photo by
Emily Donohoe
Patients can book or walk in to the clinic, which will be open Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm until February 7.
From February 10 to 21, opening hours will extend from 7am to 10pm Monday to Friday, and from February 24, it will resume its original 24/7 service.
The urgent care clinic is located at the rear of the REDHS site at 1 Pascoe St, Rochester.
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