Fayetteville, North Carolina – Officials recently reported that a temporary yet new Veterans Affairs clinic will be put up in Fayetteville with the aim of helping in decreasing overall wait times and significantly improve urgent care.
The new Breezewood urgent care clinic that opened last Monday is located at 2919 Breezewood Avenue, Suite 101. It is near the Purdue Drive and Raeford Road intersection.
In the previous six weeks, it is the second of the temporary urgent care clinics opened in the Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The new Veterans Affairs clinic is 3,900 square feet and houses about 16 staff that includes three patient teams that include a doctor, a number of nurses and also a medical support assistant that are each trained to treat approximately 1,200 patients.
Fayetteville VA hospital’s ambulatory care chief nurse Debra Young stated as she led a short tour last Wednesday that the new clinic cleared room for other new providers at Ramsey Street, the main campus of the hospital.
After the said remodeling, aside from being able to cater to more patients seeking urgent care near me, the extra space allowed room for a reception area, seven exam rooms, lab, a larger staff room for their employees, and also plenty parking.
Young stated that Fayetteville VA’s efforts, specifically the construction of the new Veterans Affairs clinic is a good start in their aim to increase overall clinical space, and to better treat the continuously growing veteran population. She added that they are doing everything they can to deliver and provide high quality care.
Alongside with these developments, in west Fayetteville, a health center is also under construction and other clinics are also scheduled to be constructed in Jacksonville and Sanford. These temporary clinics’ main purpose is to shorten the gap of access while permanent facilities are still under construction.
The Fayetteville VA recently signed a 2 year lease in Breezewood, with an available option for an added year. A Veterans Affairs audit earlier this year revealed that Fayetteville VA recorded one of the longest and worst wait times for veterans in need of care.
Latest data shows that Veterans Affairs recorded from early October that Fayetteville patients waited almost three whole months for their scheduled first primary appointment, and even existing patients needed to wait for 25 days. Elizabeth Goolsby the director of Fayetteville VA and Debra Young stated that the creation of the new Veterans Affairs clinic is very timely and immediately will impact overall wait times by increasing service capacity to 3,500 patients.
