Physicians from the St. Anthony and McFarland Clinics along with staff from Carroll County Public Health will be recording a joint educational discussion to provide the latest information on vaccinations, statistics and long-term health issues for some who had COVID. St. Anthony Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kyle Ulveling, will moderate the discussion and be joined on the panel by Dr. John Evans of the McFarland Clinic, Dr. Mark Collison with the St. Anthony Clinic and RN, BSNs with Carroll County Public Health, Director Nicole Schwering and Sara Schulte. The group will present the current COVID statistics and will not only answer some of the most frequently asked questions on safety concerns and herd immunity they will also discuss shared goals for the future and introduce two COVID-19 patients who continue to have symptoms long after their acute infections. This will not be a live event, but will be prerecorded and then distributed through media outlets, on the medical websites and th
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T-R Photos by TREVOR BABCOCK McFarland Clinic Executive Director Deb Wollam speaks at the groundbreaking for the brand new McFarland Clinic set to start construction next week.
Construction on a brand new medical facility in Marshalltown will soon begin.
Ground has broken on the $18 million McFarland Clinic being built near East Merle Hibbs Boulevard on the south side of town.
McFarland Clinic employees, partners and friends gathered at the nine acres large construction site Thursday to commemorate work beginning next week.
“For the past 25 years the clinic has worked to build a cohesive community of health care professionals dedicating their careers to providing for patients they care for in Marshalltown,” McFarland Clinic CEO Andrew Perry. “Today we’re celebrating the next phase of that commitment by investing in a 60,000 square foot medical facility that will provide primary care and specialty care services for years to come.”
The April 1 clinic at that same location in the Westgate Mall went so smoothly they will be following that model. Schulte says they served a lot of individuals at the first clinic, coming from as far as two and a half hours away. She says they are happy to help those people, but this has also resulted in cases where some are making multiple appointments and not cancelling the ones they do not use.
Even though variants of the virus are hitting some areas in Iowa, such as the Iowa City school district that had hundreds forced to isolate, Schulte says the positivity rates have remained pretty stable in Carroll County. In the past 14 days, that rate has hovered around 2.2 to three percent. Case counts coming in are generally not more than five a day. She says variants are likely in the area, it is just a matter of the Iowa Department of Public Health testing for them. She does believe, however, that they are doing appropriate testing at this point with healthcare providers conducting
Carroll County Public Health is expecting to receive a total of 300 Moderna and 100 Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine doses for this week. The 100 Johnson and
Jan 29, 2021 Officials with Hamilton County Public Health have announced that a very limited supply COVID-19 vaccine will be allocated to area clinics to begin 1B vaccinations. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced changes to the priority populations receiving a vaccination in Phase 1B. These changes included extending the age priority from 75 and older to 65 and older. Individuals who qualify for group 1B were also outlined. According to Shelby Kroona, Hamilton County Public Health administrator, Phase 1B is expected to begin Monday, Feb. 1. Local public health will be allocating the doses to its partners to assist with the vaccination process. The plan for Hamilton County is to allocate all 200 between the three clinic offices –Van Diest Family Health Clinic, Iowa Specialty and McFarland. Kroona said this was the complete allocation for the first week of February.