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Hearts and Hands moving
Clinic to grow capabilities, expand health services with larger facility
Hearts Clinic file Web
In this Herald file photo from 2010, local optometrist Krystal Bragg, right, gives an eye exam as part of services from the Hearts & Hands Clinic. The clinic announced it will move its offices to North College St. in Statesboro.
Fewer than two years after opening its doors to the Bulloch County community, the Hearts and Hands Clinic is moving into a new location to expand services and better support an ever-growing patient-base. Officials with the non-profit medical clinic, which offers free primary health services to medically uninsured citizens with an income below the federal poverty guideline, announced this week that the clinic would relocate its services to a North College Street medical office building.Administrators for the clinic agreed Monday to a two-year rental agreement — at a reduced rate — for a building located at 127 North College Street.Andres Montes, founder, chairman and CEO of Hearts and Hands, said the move comes as a result of the clinic having outgrown its current facilities (Son's Light Fellowship Baptist Church on U.S. 301 South, near Gateway Industrial Park).“We are so excited that we have been able to grow this fast, and are excited to move to this new location,” Montes said. “We keep seeing more and more patients — there is a two-month waiting list for medial services and an even longer list for dental patients — to the point where we have outgrown our current building.”The new location will provide “more exams rooms — which is the big thing,” he said.
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