This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Veterans Memorial Hospital Waukon Medical Clinic. The new clinic opened May 3, 2021, joining the Gundersen Waukon Clinic in providing accessible family health care so residents of northeast Iowa have the care they need when they need it. The statistics show, after just 11 months, the incredible need and impact of this new clinic.
As of March 31, 2022, over 7,211 patient visits to the clinic had been made. Scheduled adult preventative exams, such as annual physicals, Medicare annual wellness exams and new patient appointments to establish care with a provider totaled 780; well-child visits totaled 476, and 460 OB visits were made.
Those that needed to see a provider for an acute visit, for items such as sore throats, ear aches, pain, strains, stiches, etc., totaled 3,083 visits. In addition, 460 people were referred to a specialist and 118 referred to Veterans Memorial Hospital surgeons.