A new surgery was born in Braidwood on Monday, as the Wallace Street surgery opened its doors.
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Formerly the Wilson Street Surgery, the new premises came about partly through a chance meeting.
Danny King happened to bump into Practice Manager Judit Kovacs at an exhibition of her daughter’s costumes at Braidwood Regional Arts Centre.
With his wife Cathy, whose family have owned the land for over a hundred years, Mr King had been planning to build a suite of offices.
When he discovered the Wilson Street Surgery was looking for new premises, an idea was born.
All it took was a few tweaks to the plans, knocking out a wall and adding in washbasins, to turn the building into the perfect doctor’s surgery.
“I’m over the moon about the outcome,” says Mr King, who believes that a surgery on Wallace Street will much better serve the needs of the community.
Appropriately, the surgery is now right next to the site of one of the first doctor’s practices in Braidwood, the Redhead Surgery, says Mr King.
On Monday the Wallace Street Surgery was officially opened by its youngest patient, Kip Smith, and its second oldest, Jack Featherstone.
The choice of the first day of Family Doctor Week illustrated the spread of the surgery’s influence in the community, said Doctor David Sutherland.
Dr Sutherland began Wilson Street Surgery five years ago.
He believes the new facility will best allow the surgery to serve the community.
”Wallace Street Surgery being family owned has the ability to adapt and change with the needs of our patients” says Practice Manager Judit Kovacs.
“With the opening of our new surgery we are able to offer more appointment times every day, Female Doctors every day, pathology collection Monday to Friday, psychology, ultrasound, chiropractic and remedial massage.”