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Pearl City Clinic Joins A New Network
BY JAIMIE KIM FARINAS
All Urgent Care Hawai‘i walk-in clinics across the island — including one loca- tion in Pearl City — are now part of the Adventist Health Castle network, an acquisi- tion the hospital’s president Ryan Ashlock says is more a melding of like-minded ob- jectives.
Since then, however, the company has expanded its involvement in the commu- nity, manning first-aid tents at large events, offering health screenings, attending health fairs and educating other neighborhood organi- zations.
Now that it has joined forces with Adventist Health Castle, not a whole lot will change, to hear Schmidt tell it.
job in the urgent care setting is convenient and cost-effec- tive,” Schmidt adds.
“Adventist Health Castle and Urgent Care Hawai‘i share a goal of improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve,” he says.
“During the pandemic, Urgent Care Hawai‘i pro- vided free sports physicals at high schools to get kids back on the playing field,” Schmidt adds.
Clinics, she explains, will continue to care for indi- viduals of all ages, from in- fants and children to adults and kūpuna, while offering laboratory, X-ray and tele- health services, in addition to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations.
Urgent care services, Ash- lock explains, were, as he puts it, “a missing compo- nent” for Adventist Health Castle. So, to be able to now offer them means being able to care for O‘ahu on a broad- er spectrum that ultimately will benefit everyone.
“When our respective teams were introduced, it was clear that our similar missions and shared goals could be achieved better to- gether.”
“They provided on-site COVID-19 testing to busi- nesses and performed daily well checks for individu- als in quarantine. Bringing
They will continue to car- ry on its occupational med- icine program, too, which encompasses work and commercial driver’s license physicals, and drug and re-
In addition to its Pearl City location, Urgent Care Hawai‘i has facilities in Kai- lua, Kapolei and Waikīkī. The transaction is expected to close on Dec. 1.
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Care Hawai‘i founder and CEO Donna Schmidt initial- ly sought to bridge the di- vide between physicians and emergency services.
health care to individuals, families and businesses is a whole new level of con- venience and accessibility,” she explains.
spiratory fit testing. “Treating injuries on the
What Urgent Care Ha- wai‘i gains is Adventist Health Castle’s extensive lineup of primary and spe- cialty care physicians.
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