Pandemic sets back new California clinic opening

<p>Democrat photo/Austin Hornbostel</p><p>Jefferson City Medical Group’s former Family Health Clinic space in California is set to be replaced by the Community Health Center soon. Work on JCMG’s new clinic space down the road, which was originally set for a June opening, has been postponed until further notice due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.</p>

Democrat photo/Austin Hornbostel

Jefferson City Medical Group’s former Family Health Clinic space in California is set to be replaced by the Community Health Center soon. Work on JCMG’s new clinic space down the road, which was originally set for a June opening, has been postponed until further notice due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Work on Jefferson City Medical Group's new Family Health Clinic, planned to be built on Buchanan Street next to in California, has been postponed until further notice.

The clinic's old space, which JCMG was leasing and will soon house a Community Health Center, closed at the end of June.

"JCMG continues to retain that piece of land, and we do hope to proceed with the build of that new clinic, but we do not have a reopen date or a start date for the project at this time," said Jamie Patterson, JCMG's vice president of marketing and business development.

JCMG decided to postpone work on the project earlier this year, around the same time the Family Health Clinic's former primary care provider, Dr. Nathan Granneman, departed, Patterson said. The focus then shifted to helping inform patients and working with them to shift their care.

"We wanted to make sure that all of those patients could transition their care as quickly and conveniently as possible," Patterson said.

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