Greenville, S.C.-based Shriners Hospital opened a new clinic in Hendersonville, N.C., according to Hendersonville Lightning.
Here are three takeaways:
1. Shriners Hospital partnered with Morganton, N.C.-based BlueRidge Health and Hendersonville-based Park Ridge Health to open the clinic.
2. The clinic's providers will offer care on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month.
3. Shriners has opened similar clinics in Bluffton, S.C., and Johnson City, Tenn., to provide patients more access to orthopedic services.
"We recognize that access to care is extremely important, so we are doing our best to make the services we offer available to more kids," said Michael Wattenbarger, MD, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Greenville's chief of staff. "Our team of pediatric orthopedic surgeons is the largest in the history of the hospital, and that depth will enable members of our team with different specialties to rotate through the Hendersonville office."