The $6.15 million Mercy Health Belmont Medical Center project in Youngstown, Ohio, will provide more space for the current family medicine residency program, as well as give patients access to other specialties located under one roof, The Business Journal Daily reports.
“This is a really unique opportunity for us because we are taking our mission-driven services and we’re bringing them all together in one location,” said Dr. John Luellen, president of Mercy Health Lorain and Youngstown. “We’re talking about our family medicine program. We’re talking about our OBGYN program, our centering pregnancy program, a Spanish-speaking clinic and an addiction medicine fellowship program, services that you don’t typically think of being convenient for people to access.”
The new clinic will be accepting patients from the prior family medicine residency program, which had been across from the hospital, along with other Mercy Health clinics, and will still have the space for new patients to come to Mercy Health.
Mercy Health purchased and renovated the former home of the Youngstown Veterans Outpatient Clinic. Due to the pandemic, renovations took longer than initially projected. Luellen notes at one point, supply chain issues left them missing 42 doors for a year. Read more.
