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Samaritan Medical Builds Center For Women In Watertown Samaritan Medical builds new facility for women

This facility will bring multiple different services to one location

By Morgan Alexander

Leslie Distefano
“think about your own travel and what that costs you and your time the dollars in fuel and car repairs and the worry about the trip I mean I think that is a savings for many people”

(Track 1)- Morgan Alexander
Leslie Distefano is the director of public relations at Samaritan and she says that with this new facility being built the north country will now have a faster access services that people need immediate attention for.

Leslie Distefano
“Let’s say they had a mammogram and something was found they then need to make another appointment to have a biopsy done”

(Track 2)- Morgan Alexander
Distefano says that breast care is something that can be a very touchy issue for women so encouraging them to get there annual exams done and then immediately receiving additional services is a major focus for Samaritan. By having one building that has radiology, breast surgeons and OBGYN’s allows for women to not have to take multiple days off from work to receive the proper care.

{***STANDUP***}- Morgan Alexander
“I am currently in one of the new waiting rooms here at the Samaritan women’s wellness center that will now be open November 25th but last Wednesday a ribbon cutting ceremony was held so that patients could come in and get sneak peek before they are actually allowed in the building”

(Track 3)- Morgan Alexander
Kate Simpson is the nurse manager at Samaritan health in Watertown. She is one of the people who attended this ribbon cutting ceremony but she is not only excited for this facility because of the effect it will have on her patients but she is excited because of the effect it will have on her personally.

Kate Simpson
“if I had to travel and receive all these service I would probably have to go 2 to 2 and a half hours away”

(Track 4)- Morgan Alexander
Simpson feels that as a community it was a disservice to not have a facility that could help all the women in this area’s needs. The Watertown area is known for heavy snowfall and harsh winters so keeping people off the roads and traveling as much as possible was a change that she feels needed to happen.

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (NCC News)– Samaritan Medical women’s wellness and breast care center opens Nov. 25. This center is different that anything that the north country has ever had. In the past women had to schedule annual examinations and then if something was wrong they would get sent to a specialist that could be over a three hour drive away.

“There is a lot of patients that don’t want to drive through the Syracuse area,” said Kate Simpson, the nurse manager at Samaritan.

Samaritan Womens Wellness
Inside the women’s wellness center in Watertown,N.Y.
© 2019 Morgan Alexander

The new center will bringing multiple services to one location saving people time and money. This center will have:

  • radiology
  • a breast care surgeon
  • OBGYN’s

“Typically health care its a continuous cycle there is follow up there is more appointments so its never typically just one there is a series of them so then you compound what that looks like so the real savings for patients is quiet large,” said Leslie Distefano, the public relations manager for Samaritan Medical.

A major issue Distefano sees is that women have to take a lot of time off of work to drive all over to receive the proper health care. Now with the addition of this facility they won’t have to.

“If I have to travel and receive all these service I would probably have to go two and a half hours away,” said Simpson.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held last Wednesday to show new and older patients what this facility will bring the table. On Monday patients can start receiving these health care services.

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