TriState Health in Clarkston, Washington, will begin offering obstetrics and gynecology services, as well as an orthopedics clinic, this fall.
The OB-GYN clinic, which will be located on the main hospital campus, will offer women’s health and prenatal care. It will be staffed by Dr. Lindsay Kern, who specializes in OB-GYN care, and certified nurse-midwife Andrea Hedrick.
TriState will not deliver babies at their facility, but both Kern and Hedrick will deliver patients’ babies at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Idaho.
Kern, who previously worked alongside Hedrick at Catalyst Medical Group in Lewiston, will now have her office at TriState.
Since Kern’s departure, only one OB-GYN has been delivering babies in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. Other types of providers, such as midwives and nurse-midwives like Hedrick, have provided a significant portion of the obstetrics care in the valley.
“ The community was saying, ‘We are having to leave the community to receive these services,’” said Joleen Carper, chief operating officer at TriState Health. “When Dr. Kern reached out with the interest of coming back to the community, it just seemed like an obvious thing that we needed to pursue.”
TriState Health will offer prenatal and OB-GYN care, including routine and advanced gynecology services, comprehensive obstetric services and minimally invasive surgical services.
Orthopedics at TriState
The hospital will also be adding a neworthopedics clinic in the fall. That clinic will be staffed by Dr. Bryan Beardsley and Greg Obray, who holds physician assistant and athletic trainer certifications.
Orthopedics is one of the most common referrals that TriState physicians make, Carper said, with anywhere from 1,200 to 1,400 referrals to orthopedics in a year.
The clinic offers a range of services, including fracture and trauma care, and non-surgical options to improve mobility and quality of life.
The clinic will also offer arthroscopic surgery, a minimally invasive type of surgery that allows for repair inside of joints like shoulders and knees. They will also offer tendon repair and release procedures.
Carper said for both obstetrics and orthopedics, access to local care is critically important to patients.
“We really feel like that's our job, is to listen to the community,” she said, “so our patients can stay local for the care that they need.”
Both clinics are expected to be open by late September or early October, Carper said.
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