New healthcare clinic opens at YMCA in West Boulevard corridor

A neighborhood YMCA, by means of a partnership with Atrium Well being, is bringing healthcare to their facility within the West Boulevard Hall. 

The Ed Brown Neighborhood Heart opened on the Stratford Richardson YMCA on March 18. It homes a brand new neighborhood healthcare clinic formally named The Atrium Well being Neighborhood Care Major Care West Boulevard Household Medication Clinic.

The brand new 5,000-square-foot clinic could have six examination rooms, a minor surgical process room, a lab and on-site prescription pick-up. 

The clinic will present pediatric care, girls’s care, preventive well being care, physicals, x-rays, listening to and imaginative and prescient screenings, and extra. 

It can additionally provide a meals pharmacy in partnership with Nourish Up — previously named Loaves & Fishes — and, starting in April, digital behavioral healthcare can be supplied.

“Rising up, I witnessed firsthand the shortage of sources in [the West Boulevard Corridor] in comparison with others in Charlotte. I’m thrilled that years later, I get to be part of this superb announcement that represents a long-needed useful resource for the West Boulevard residents,” Jemarion Younger, the brand new Government Director of the Stratford Richardson YMCA, stated.

“Many residents right here have struggled to entry healthcare for years — many by funds, lack of transportation and concern. By offering them with high quality healthcare, I hope that we will enhance the social determinants of well being for the residents of this neighborhood.”  

The clinic was named after outstanding Charlotte enterprise chief and selfless philanthropist Edward J. Brown III, who died in April 2023. 

Brown served the Charlotte neighborhood in a number of methods, together with 19 years as a part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners, which he chaired from 2013-2021.

The neighborhood heart and household medication clinic had been funded partially by a $2 million federal appropriation secured by Congresswoman Alma S. Adams and funds allotted from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in 2020, in line with an announcement from Atrium Well being. 

“Well being care is one in every of my ‘4 H’s,’ a signature focus for my workplace, particularly relating to increasing entry to care in deprived communities,” Congresswoman Alma S. Adams stated in an announcement. “The $2 million we secured to assist rework the Stratford Richardson YMCA right into a well being neighborhood campus can be important to our West Boulevard hall neighborhood.” 

The Ed Brown Neighborhood Heart can be open for sufferers Monday by means of Friday from 8 a.m. to five p.m.

To schedule an appointment, name 980-402-1660 or go to the MyAtriumHealth web site or app.