Onancock, Va – Riverside’s primary care providers in Nassawadox moved on July 23 to a new location just down the street.
Riverside Eastern Shore Family Medicine is now located at 10085 William F. Bernart Circle, on the corner of Rogers Drive and Hospital Avenue in Nassawadox in the building that formerly held the cancer center. Cancer services moved to Riverside’s Onancock campus in 2017.
Providers Dr. John Snyder and Nurse Practitioners Jody Chance, Tammy Hedspeth and Jeanette Sessoms offer prevention and healthy living services, well visits including Medicare annual wellness visits, medical screenings, on-site laboratory draws, chronic disease management, injections and routine procedures.
“The building that now houses our Nassawadox primary care team is only fifteen years old and was in good shape, so it was perfect for adaptation into a doctor’s office,” said John Peterman, Vice President and Administrator for Riverside Shore Health Services. “Providing primary care in Nassawadox as well as Parksley and Cape Charles makes services accessible for everyone on the Shore, and that is part of our business strategy as well as our mission to provide care in a way that we would appreciate for our own family members.”
Photo courtesy RSMH
The building was originally funded through a bequest and through donations from the community in 2001-2002. “We are glad to continue to provide services in a building that has such a rich history of community involvement. The people of the Shore have demonstrated how important health care is to them, and we are proud to continue our commitment to serving them in this renovated facility,” said Peterman.
At all of Riverside’s primary care practices, a few appointments are set aside every day for people who need same day care. In addition, the Nassawadox practice is open the first Saturday of every month from 9am – 1pm for appointments or walk-in patients. On the remaining Saturdays each month, Riverside Cape Charles Medical Center is open from 9am – 1pm.
Whatever happened to the Urgent Care Center promised for that building. Riverside spoke out of both sides of its mouth on this issue, promising an Urgent Care Center as a substitute for removing the Emergency Room. Now it wants accolades for opening a physician’s office. Incredible. Riverside stripped Northampton County of any semblance of medical care.
Northampton-Accomac Memorial Hospital operated to help sick folks get better and make dying folks comfortable.
Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital operates to make as much profit as they possibly can.
Capitalism, Stuart Bell.
There is BIG money to be made off of sick people in this country.
Consider the Marketwatch article “ISM services index in July falls to 11-month low” by Steve Goldstein published Aug. 3, 2018, for example:
The second-longest post-war economic expansion continues to be the driving force behind gains, as the index has been above the level indicating expansion for 102 consecutive months.
Service businesses are more insulated anyway.
As one manager in health care and social assistance said: “Patients get sick regardless of what is going on in the economy.”
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And venture capitalists are buying up medical practices all over America as we are told in the Marketwatch story “Medical practices have become a hot investment — are profits being put ahead of patients?” by Emma Court published June 19, 2018, to wit:
Your physician has become big business.
And patient advocates say you should be worried.
Even if the waiting room, staff and doctor herself look exactly the same as in the past, medical practices of all kinds are increasingly being snapped up by larger groups, hospital systems and even health-insurance companies.
Lately, those buyers aren’t even from the health-care world.
In a growing and powerful trend, private-equity and venture-capital groups have been swooping in with ever larger offers for all kinds of doctor’s practices.
Critics, though, say that financial firms’ involvement has gone far beyond the back office, harming patient care and driving up health-care costs.
Doctors report pressure to upcharge when billing health insurers and to sell products and procedures, while financial firms skimp on medical supplies and employees.
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Sick and dying people have become cash cows in America, Stuart Bell.
It is about maximizing profits for the shareholders and investors, afterall, because in America we embrace capitalism, not socialism like they have in backwards places like Canada and Ireland.