Monday, July 27, 2015

Opening celebration held for new community care clinic

Tue, 14 Jul 2015Liberty University News Service

 

A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, July 14, celebrated the opening of the Liberty Mountain Medical Group (LMMG), a new Lynchburg primary care medical clinic on Wards Road in the K-Mart shopping center. LMMG is a joint venture between Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) and Central Virginia Family Physicians (CVFP), a collection of eight private family practices, with physicians from both entities staffing the facility.

Dr. Ronnie Martin, dean of LUCOM, thanked Liberty faculty, staff, and leadership for its dedication, as well as the CVFP staff for its partnership. Martin noted LUCOM’s dedication to collaborate with Lynchburg’s established medical community, noting partnerships with Centra and other local health care facilities.

“We need a very strong affiliation with the physicians who see patients,” he said. “This clinic represents tangible proof of the commitment that Liberty University has to improve the quality of life in Lynchburg and to provide increased access to services for the people of Lynchburg, because health care is an engine — it’s an economic engine, it’s a quality of life engine — Liberty has that commitment.”

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