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Liberty Mills Road location expands Parkview service in southwest Allen By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
The new Parkview Medical Plaza at 8911 Liberty Mills Road opened its doors March 27. Patients will find walk-in care from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. seven days a week. The lab and radiology units are open those same hours. Dr. Melissa Walther and Dr. Adam Will serve patients at the southwest side health-care facility. Jim Hauguel, senior vice president, service line leader-primary care, for Parkview Physicians Group, presided over the March 26 ribboncutting. “We’re excited to bring more care to southwest Allen County,” Hauguel told media representatives. “We’ve got a large population of patients that live out in this area, and we’ve found that we haven’t done a great job of coming out here and providing those services, so this really provides us an opportunity to move this forward, bring more patient care to this part of town, and be available for the future of care delivery as we move forward.” Parkview Physicians Group COO Jill Ostrem addressed that emphasis in a news release. “We are pleased to
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Dr. Adam Will holds his son Caleb, 2, who helped to cut the ribbon for the Parkview Medical Plaza at 8911 Liberty Mills Road. expand so many health-care services to the southwest community of Fort Wayne,” the release states. “The addition of the Parkview Medical Plaza complements all of the services Parkview currently provides to this community, including our primary care location on Illinois Road and our specialty services at Inverness Medical Park.” “We have a little bit of a different design in our primary care facilities to allow for more health coaches,”
Hauguel said. “We also have Parkview Regional Medical Center’s lab and radiology services, and we also are highlighting our first-care walk-in services. So we’re going to be able to provide 8-to-8 coverage for the walk-in clinic services — basically how you need it and when you need it — and make it accessible for our patients.” Witwer Construction Inc. built the health facility. Work on the 14,000square-foot building began in September. A spokesman said only landscaping remained to be done after the clinic opened. Tom Salzer was the head architect for Moake Park Group. “They’re doing an an integrated delivery approach, so the doctors have extra collaboration space so they can talk to one another about cases and then send their patients right in,” Salzer said. “We’ve got got a conference area, so they can have healthy living seminars, nutritional cooking seminars, diabetic care seminars, things like that for the community.” “And we designed the building so they can add three or four physicians without expanding the building,” Salzer said.
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The Elite and Class Royale show choirs celebrate their dual Grand Champion awards at Carroll High School.
Homestead show choirs plan free show as season finale´ Building on the success of the 2012-13 season, the Homestead High School show choirs will host the annual show choir clinic from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11. The cost for the clinic,
for students in grades three to eight, is $25. Auditions follow on Thursday, May 23. Clinics will be held from 3-5 p.m. daily, May 13-16, so the participants may learn the audition song. There is no charge for the audition itself. There also is no charge
for the public to enjoy the May 11 clinic’s finale´. presentation. “Our main goal is to show the kids a day in the life of a high school show choir, to give them a taste of what it’s like to be in a show choir, and learn a See CHOIR, Page A4
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April 5, 2013
Covington-Dicke light part of broader project By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
Covington Road will be widened between Dicke and Hadley roads in conjunction with replacement of the bridge over Interstate 69. The bridge work will reroute Covington road traffic for several months. “When the bridge is taken out, there will not be access on Covington Road, probably early May through October,” said Shan Gunawardena, Fort Wayne’s city engineer. “INDOT is replacing the bridge, so that is the primary portion of the project, so we also are taking the opportunity to do some improvements,” Gunawardena said. Covington will be widened between Dicke and Hadley. A turn lane onto Dicke will be created for traffic coming from the east on Covington. The crowded Dicke approach onto Covington also will be divided into left-turn and right-turn
lanes. The project includes a traffic light at Dicke. “We are going to have those two intersections synchronized,” Gunawardena said. A pedestrian trail will be extended from the west, along the north side of the bridge, and east to Hadley Road, where walkers can cross to Covington Hollow Lane on the south. “For right now the trail will end there,” the engineer said, adding that perhaps a future project will extend the path to the east. “The intersection of Covington and Dicke is getting really busy,” Gunawardena said. “We are seeing a lot more traffic to the south.” He said the project is intended to improve safety in an area that has had a history of accidents. The city’s share of the intersection project is about $100,000, the engineer said. The Indiana Department See ROAD, Page A2