Bristol Hospital’s new Medical Care Center will be a dream facility for physicians, patients and staff.
“We’re really excited about the opportunity the doctors will have to collaborate,” said Tiffany Morrissey, administrator for the Bristol Hospital Multi- Specialty Group.
Morrissey added that there will be “so much synergy between” the physicians and their specialties. The Medical Care Center, located at 15 Riverside Ave., will house a blood draw station and physical therapy on the lower level. The first floor will be home to orthopedics, rheumatology and neurology.
Orthopedics is notably led by Dr. David Rubins, a joint and hip replacement surgeon. “Dr. Rubins is extremely well known in the community,” said Christopher Boyle, hospital spokesman.
Orthopedics will also include Drs. R. Damani Howell, Rania Rifaey, Peter Bellezza, Christopher Betz, Mark Watson and Ashish Upadhyay. Rheumatology will include Drs. Archana Sharma, and neurology will be done by Drs. Cara Pittari and Kateryna Kurako. A lot of thought and discussions were placed into which specialties would go on which floors.
Morrissey said this will allow communication to happen quicker. Instead of calling someone on the phone, physicians will be “right on the same floor,” she said.
“We’re trying to make it a onestop shop for care,” Morrissey said.
The second floor will house cardiology, including Drs. Liran Blum, Robert DeBiase, Fawad Kazi, Joseph Marakovits and Michael Whaley; urology, including Dr Kai Hans Hammerich; and endocrinology, including Dr. Vijay Joshi.
Not only will a number of specialties being under one roof be more convenient for patients, but it also helps when recruiting new physicians.
“Physicians want the ability to be in a state-of-the-art facility,” Morrissey said.
The current physicians of the Bristol Hospital Multi-Specialty Group are also happy the new building will open soon. It is slated to open its doors in early summer.
“They’re so excited,” Morrissey said.
The new building also has space for specialties to grow in the future. It offers a lot of natural light and “beautiful views of Bristol,” which Morrissey said will help patients “feel at ease.”
“They’re overlooking a beautiful part of Bristol,” she said.
Boyle said the new medical center was the result of a top concern voiced in the hospital’s community needs assessment, which is conducted every few years. “Access to care,” Boyle said was one of the top concerns.
When a patient checks into the new center, Morrissey said, they won’t just be checking into one specialty, they’ll be checking into the medical group as a whole.