This new health care clinic in East Pierce County caters to seniors. Here’s how
.jpg "The Senior Clinic at 3909 10th St. SE in Puyallup had its soft opening on Nov. 15. It has a lab and will soon have a pharmacy onsite.")
Seniors in the Puyallup area have a new clinic they can visit that will give a “concierge-style health care experience,” according to a news release from Sound Family Medicine.
The Senior Clinic at 3909 10th St. SE had its soft opening Nov. 15, director of service delivery Lei Sablaon said.
The clinic’s pharmacy — one of the services the clinic offers — will open on Dec. 7.
In addition to the pharmacy, the clinic also has a lab onsite.
Two of the providers at the clinic are Dr. Sean Stout and physician assistant-certified Tracie Jefferson.
The clinic offers appointment times as long as 30 minutes to an hour, Sablaon said.
Offering longer appointment times means patients will have more time to address any health care concerns they might have, Sablaon said. Some clinics offer between 15 to 30 minutes maximum, she said.
“The Senior Clinic gives us a unique model that allows us to focus on the quality of overall care, freeing my team and me to spend the time needed to fully address the whole health picture,” Stout said in the news release.
Sablaon said senior living is growing in the area, and that they realized there was a need for more health care options to keep up with that growth.
“Most health care organizations kind of operate in a fee-for-service world where the focus is more on … seeing as many patients as possible,” Sablaon said. “We wanted to change the dynamic of health care and focus on the quality of health care for seniors.”
Sound Family Medicine has been in East Pierce County since 1984, according to the news release. It is a private family practice that is physician-owned and operated.
