James Shina, Steward senior practice director for operations Brian Dinger and cardiologist Dr. Christopher Raymond, Trumbull Regional Medical Center chief medical officer Dr.Justin Mikula, Trumbull Regional Medical Center President Krista McFadden, Dr. Pictured: Cutting the ribbon on the new building are Raymond Chiropractic owner Dr. Having them in the same office whenever I have questions is beautiful.” “Especially in what I do, I need a primary care doctor or a GI specialist or a surgeon. We’re able to refer patients over and ask questions,” the chiropractor says.

“The goal was, from the standpoint of the group that built it, was to have everything in a single, central location. A patient can present with symptoms, meet with the doctor and get diagnosed all in the same day.”Īnd that, Raymond says, is something that benefits the community both he and Shina grew up in and serve today. “We can get them a same-day appointment because the doctor is next door. When someone takes the time out of their schedule to see a primary care physician – say it’s stomach pain – they don’t want to reschedule a time to come back in two or three days,” says Brian Dinger, Steward’s senior practice director for operations. Putting the office where it is, within a short distance of both other Steward primary care physicians and the urgent care center, allows the continuum of Steward’s services to be available for patients at a moment’s notice. “The more we can care for the community here – get them their appointments and specialist care – the better it will be in the long run.” “Austintown is an important market for Steward and it’s a difficult market just because of where it stands in relation to the hospital,” she continued. You’re trying to intersect those two areas. As such, Steward has looked at “where the pockets of people are and where the pockets of need are. In recent years, health-care has moved to delivering care where patients are, rather than relying on them to come to a hospital, she said. It was the need for both kinds of care – primary and specialty – that drew Steward to opening the new office, said Krista McFadden, president of Trumbull Regional Medical Center. Primary care is the front door, but sometimes there are different rooms we need our patients to go into.”

McNally, our gastroenterologist, to do it for me. … If someone needs a colonoscopy cancer screening, I’ll ask Dr. “Being a primary care physician, there are things I can handle and there are things I can’t handle. “There’s lots of primary care, but when something comes up that needs to be addressed by a specialist, there aren’t many people around,” he said. Canfield-Niles Road houses Steward Primary Care, Steward Multispecialty Care and Raymond Chiropractic. Uniting those methods of care under one roof, Shina said, improves access for patients in a community that has traditionally been short on specialty care. Mboutidem Etokakpan and Penelope Maskburn – and Raymond Chiropractic. Meredythe McNally and general surgeons Drs. Anthony Russo and nurse practitioner Andria Simmons, Steward Multispecialty Care – urologist Dr. The office houses Steward Primary Care, represented by Shina, Dr. “The house that was here went up for sale and then the pieces started falling into place.” Raymond told me he was getting out of his space in Weston Center and we brainstormed,” Shina said Monday at a ribbon cutting for the office. “Next door, we were expanding with some new partners coming on board.

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