13th Ave.: Offers urgent and primary care, physical and hand therapy, musculoskeletal therapy. And with plans to grow in underserved locations, no doubt, more providers - and patients - will join the Nova Health family.Ĭoburg, 1800 Coburg Road: Offers urgent and primary care, physical and hand therapy. Not all of the clinics are accepting new patients, “but we’ve added a lot of new providers in the area recently,” Clendenen says. Mark Schnapper, Nova Health’s urgent care medical director, the rest of Nova Health’s staff includes nurse family practitioners, physician assistants and physical therapists.

Lyle Torguson, Nova Health’s primary medical care director, and Dr. And for those who don’t have health insurance, there are self-pay options available.

Nova accepts a wide range of health insurance plans, including Medicare, PacificSource, Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthCare and Cigna, among several others. Providers maintain open appointments such that many patients can get same-day or near-day appointments, Clendenen allows. 11th Ave.Īt all Nova Health clinics, community members can drop in at any time during business hours for urgent care services, and make primary care appointments online or by calling a clinic. Next up this fall or early winter, Nova Health will open a clinic in west Eugene at 44 W. “I think that just shows how much that community needs access to health care and how excited they were to have new providers - both primary and urgent care services in a community that definitely needs it,” Rice says. More than 100 community members showed up for the event. “I’d say we have aggressive growth plans to meet the needs of our communities and those underserved,” Clendenen allows.Īt the end of September, Nova Health marketing director Kristine Rice attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Nova Health-Florence. And there are plans to expand to more than 20 clinics by the end of next year. The company presently has 14 clinics, all with urgent care and primary care offerings along with a variety of additional services. What was Junction City Medical Clinic, is now Nova Health-Junction City with urgent care, primary care and physical therapy available. So, what was Atlas Hand Therapy, for example, is now part of the offerings at Nova Health-Patterson, with the combined services of urgent care, primary care, hand therapy, physical therapy, and musculoskeletal therapy. “More and more medical companies like Nova have realized that we need to develop a strong brand to identify us as a preferred place for our patients within our community to get the care they need.” “There is a consumerism, or even a retailization, of health care,” Clendenen says. Gone are the days when hospital systems and insurance companies were in control of the available health care options.

A push from consumers for more points of access into the health care system has triggered that shift. He recalls that when he began, the clinics all operated with different names, yielding few clues “that we were all connected.” Familiar names were Five Rivers in Junction City, Atlas Physical Therapy in Eugene, and Eugene Urgent Care among them.Ī shift in the health care industry has been one of the driving forces behind the decision for Nova Health to unify its various offerings under one brand. “A nova is two stars coming together to make a brighter star,” says Nova Health’s CEO Bill Clendenen, “and so, for us, bringing primary care and urgent care together to serve our various communities - for either scheduled care or for unscheduled urgent care - those were the two lines of service coming together to provide a better solution for our patients.”Ĭlendenen has been at the helm of this local medical care company, which serves Douglas and Lane counties, for a little more than two years. Folks recently heading to the Eugene Urgent Care or the Thurston Urgent Care may have noticed a new sign outside the facilities featuring a circular aqua-green and dark-blue star emblem next to the clinic’s new parent name: Nova Health.

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