Medicine
Redefined
CLINE FAMILY MEDICINE – WHERE PATIENTS COME FIRST
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STORY BY LEON ALDRIDGE | PHOTOS BY LEON ALDRIDGE AND GINIA HOOPER
f one simply reads the words
“Welcome to Cline Family Medicine
where patients come first” on the
Center health care provider’s website, it
may seem at first like a standard marketing
phrase.
But it takes only a few minutes spent
with them to quickly discover that those
words are not marketing hype at all, they
are a commitment.
“Hospitality is in our DNA,” Mark
A. Cline will tell you with sincerity. Dr.
Cline is a board-certified Diplomate of
the American Board of Family Medicine
and has been in private practice as a
family physician in Nacogdoches since
finishing his residency training in 1997. He
expanded his health care reach to Center in
2012 with the facility on Hurst Street.
“We strive to be more than a clinical
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transaction,” said Dr. Cline. “We want to
give our patients an experience of quality
care with sensitivity and confidentiality.
We are the only independent, physician-
owned healthcare facility in Center with
direct physician oversight and collaborative
care including our association with
Nacogdoches Medical Center.”
He stressed the goal of providing quality
care adding, “We are here for the long-
haul commitment. We already offer a long
list of services not available anywhere
else in Center, and we have plans to add
physicians to our staff over the next year or
two.”
“Just in the five years I’ve been here,”
added Laura Briggs, ACNP-BC, “I’ve seen
an expansion of services. Things like bio-
identical hormone replacement and our
aesthetics business known as Body Lab.
Plus, we now have a cardiologist who sees
patients at our Center office on certain
Mondays each month: Dr. Richard Lowry
with Cardiovascular Associates of East
Texas in Tyler.”
That is in addition to a list of services
that includes pediatric and adolescent
health, adult medicine, preventive
health screening, full lab with in-house
phlebotomist, sports medicine, in-
house x-ray, in-house allergy lab and
immunotherapy, and a designated
procedure room for minor in-office surgery.
“We are here to take care of you,”
Dr. Cline emphasized. “And, this is our
home. Our dedication to the community
includes not only the multi-million-dollar
commitment to the community through the
building of our Center facility but beyond
health care, we are active in the chamber