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Hearing Services of Santa Barbara
the expanded campus could accommodate 357 residents. Late last year, Schaefer moved to northern California after taking a Chief Operating Officer position at a similar facility. Casa’s Chief Financial Officer Robin Drew is currently the interim CEO at Casa. More than 100 people remain on the wait list for the campus.
Maggie Lacy, the co-founder of Zugan Health in downtown Santa Barbara
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A locally owned urgent care center in downtown Santa Barbara is celebrating a successful first year in business this month, despite many local residents not yet aware of the convenient and accessible services it has to offer. An English take on the German word zugang, meaning access and availability, Zugan offers urgent health care through both a convenient clinic and mobile services, with a doctor available to travel to patients within a 10-mile radius. “Our concept was to offer another alternative to healthcare, which eliminates all the things you dislike about going to the doctor’s office or emergency room,” explained co-founder and Registered Nurse Maggie Lacy, who gave us a tour of the facility earlier this week. Lacy, along with her business partner Jason Yeh, opened Zugan Health
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on De La Vina Street, in the same shopping center as the newly opened Italian Grocery and Starbucks at the juncture of Carrillo Street. Lacy explains Zugan is unlike a typical urgent care or emergency room with a waiting room full of germy patients, as patients are able to schedule online when they want to be seen by the clinic’s doctors, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants. “We are very transparent with our schedule, so you know you’ll be in and out in the time you reserved,” Lacy said. Likewise, patients are able to book a mobile appointment in which the Zugan staff and supplies will make a house call for people who do not want to come to the center. The mobile service has been popular with tourists, with many local hotels referring Zugan to travelers with medical problems, or those needing prescription refills while away from home. Mobile services are also convenient for those who can’t get away from home or work, but need medical care. Common ailments treated include fever, colds, flu, various viruses and infections, rashes, gastrointestinal issues, injuries including minor cuts and sprains, travel vaccines, and more. Operating as an out-of-network provider, the cost to visit Zugan starts at $159 (mobile rates start at $249), and go up depending on what’s needed during the appointment. The clinic also offers a 24-hour “telehealth” program, where patients can video chat with a doctor or nurse to discuss their current medical issue for as low as $49. “The healthcare industry is catching up with technology, and we are part of that,” Lacy said. Zugan
Zugan Health celebrates one year of business this month, providing urgent medical care and mobile services to the greater Santa Barbara community
staff will even submit the necessary paperwork to insurance companies, to ensure patients are able to have the expenditures applied to their deductibles. “We take the hassle out of it,” Lacy said, explaining that everything at Zugan is paperless, including medical intake forms. “It makes it convenient for the consumer.” Zugan’s medical director Dr. Shauna Lynch has assembled a team of six medical providers to staff the center, which is open 8 am to 8 pm Monday through Friday, and 10 am to 6 pm on the weekends. In addition to urgent medical care for all ages, Zugan also offers nutritional IV therapy and vitamin injections for those looking for immunity boosts, hydration, and nutritional support. While an anniversary party is slated for sometime in March, Lacy says a community health day on Thursday, February 25, will offer free body composition tests and glucose readings. For more information, visit www. zuganhealth.com, or call (805) 3954946. Zugan Health is located at 1015 •MJ De La Vina Street, Suite E.
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