Health industry expands in Pine River New Essentia Health clinic being built
The Pine River Essentia Health Clinic has been the talk of the town since 2017, when a new clinic building project was first announced for the city. State funding and other changes delayed the project shortly after. In May 2019, the Essentia Health board of directors gave approval for the project to move forward and the groundbreaking took place at the end of October 2019. Site prep work began shortly thereafter. The new facility will be 17,000 square feet, built on land between Pine River State Bank and the Pine River Post Office that Paul and Lynn Hunt sold to Essentia Health. The new facility is expected to expand operations at the clinic from three doctors to include two nurse practitioners with room for expansion. In total, the clinic is expected
We’ll offer lab and X-ray services as we do today, but the footprint of the clinic will allow us to expand our primary care access.
to add up to five new staff including the nurse practitioners. “We’ll offer lab and X-ray services as we do today, but the footprint of the clinic will allow us to expand our primary care access,” Essentia Health Vice President of Operations Bill Palmer said at a Pine River Chamber of Commerce event. “We have the capacity to add to that. If we someday have to add another
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doctor or nurse practitioner, we have space to do that.” Expanded services could include more cardiology outreach, orthopedics, podiatry, urology, OB-GYN, general surgery, physical therapy and mental health services. The Pine River Pharmacy, purchased by Essentia Health in 2019, will also be located in the new clinic building.
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