Essentia Health moves Occupational Medicine to new location

FARGO, N.D. • Essentia Health’s Occupational Medicine Department will be relocating from the West Fargo clinic to a new location.

Essentia, which made the announcement recently, said occupational medicine services will be offered at the hospital’s North Fargo Clinic, 1100 19th Ave. North in Fargo.

Clinic hours will remain 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday; the phone number also will remain the same.

The new clinic offers a convenient location near the Industrial Park as well as front door parking. The new space is designed for work injury care, employment physicals, drug testing and more.

Ranked Four-star hospital

More news with Essentia includes it being ranked a top rating by a national group.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the 2021 ratings for hospitals as part of its Care Compare program.

Essentia Health-Fargo received the only four-star overall rating among Fargo hospitals. In addition, Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Detroit Lakes received a fourstar rating.

The overall rating is based on how well a hospital performs across different areas of quality, like treating heart attacks and pneumonia, readmission rates and safety of care.

These Essentia facilities also each achieved a four-star patient survey rating. The patient survey rating measures patients’ experiences of their hospital care. Recently discharged patients were asked about important topics like how well nurses and doctors communicated, how responsive hospital staff were to their needs, and the cleanliness and quietness of the hospital environment.

“High quality patient care and safety is the standard at Essentia Health,” said President Dr. Bill Heegard. “This high rating is one more way to let the public know receiving care at Essentia Health is safe and the highest quality.”

The three-story building will offer five build-to-suit tenant spaces ranging from 4,42511,135 square feet on the first and third floors. The campus will be made complete with an Ophthalmology Center that will be connected to the Medical Office building.

Location of the site is behind Costco with visibility from Interstate 94.

“The new facility will continue to advance our current understanding of same-day surgery and transform the outpatient experience through convenience, comfort and creativity,” Jed LaPlante, administrator of Center for Special Surgery, said in a statement.

“With fully equipped operating rooms, the availability of cutting-edge medical technology, and private recovery space, the Ambulatory Surgery Center planned for the second floor of the building allows tremendous cost savings for patients on surgical procedures while providing an exceptional experience for patients, families and our independent medical community.”