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ATLANTICARE , from Page 1 Glen Ann Stoll , the Assistant Vice President for Primary Care and the Regional Administrator for Western Markets , said that the growth over the past decade has been “ phenomenal .”
“ I think the acceptance from the community to partner with us for their healthcare is second to none . We ’ re just so proud to be a member of the Hammonton community , and are continuing to be grateful to be able to continue to work together ,” Stoll said . Donna Sutts , the facility ’ s site director , concurred .
“ It ’ s a lot of good growth . It ’ s all good problems to have . We ’ ve increased the amount of physicians and the type of physicians ... We went from three timeshare rooms — exam rooms that would be shared — and now we have 15
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that are shared , but three of the practices have now gone full-time here , which is why their expansion was here ,” Sutts said . Stoll explained further . “ We have seen close to 140,000 patients in our emergency department and over 100,000 patients in primary care . We have tested 285,000 specimens through the AtlantiCare clinical labs in the last 10 years . Our first year in timeshare was 855 patients ; this year , Donna ’ s on target : just under 10,000 ,” Stoll said .
Part of the reason for the growth , Stoll said , is the expansion of services .
“ We have a lot of the ologies , as we jokingly call them . We have every ology : gastroenterology , neurology , nephrology , cardiology , gynecology and the list keeps growing . Donna has seen that growth from the beginning , which has really been awesome ... We expanded to five-day-a-week cardiology , five-day-a-week endocrinology and five-day-aweek OB / GYN services — but actually six , since they see patients on Saturdays ,” Stoll said .
When Hammonton Health Park was first constructed , Stoll said , it remained to be seen what services would be needed .
“ In the beginning , we weren ’ t sure what the appetite was going to be , what the volume was going to
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be , so we built out a lot of shelled space . When we first opened up the building , it was just shy of 40,000 square feet ; with the new addition , it was another 9,200 square feet . We are now built all the way out , the whole campus , and utilizing all of that space . The growth here has been tremendous ; really tremendous ,” Stoll said .
Stoll said that is has been “ a really good feeling to watch it grow .”
“ AtlantiCare ’ s my baby . We were here from the beginning and had the opportunity to help build the campus . We built the campus with feedback from the community , and what it is they were looking for . They wanted to bring the specialists here ; they didn ’ t want to leave town . Having that opportunity to then dialogue , to go to the specialists and say , ‘ The Hammonton community is looking for these specialists ; come give us a shot ’ is how the timeshare grew so quickly ,” Stoll said .
Stoll said that their goal was — and continues to be — to make treatment convenient for the patient .
“ We ’ re continuing to grow to meet the needs of the community , and we ’ ll always do that . We won ’ t stop growing . Whether we need to shift gears — whether it ’ s another specialty , another ology , if you will — we want to make care accessible to the community . How do we do that ? There ’ s been a lot of talk : are there other things that we can build on this campus ? We have another 12,000 square-foot freestanding pad in the back corner ; what ’ s it going to take to build that out ? We ’ re always thinking : what ’ s the next opportunity for us to provide service to the community ? There ’ s continued growth opportunities here ; it ’ s just identifying the right ones that will benefit the folks in Hammonton ,” Stoll said .
One such partnership which has existed since the beginning of Hammonton Health Park is with AMI ( Atlantic Medical Imaging ) AtlantiCare Hammonton .
“ Ten years ago , when Atlanti- Care was coming to Hammonton , they asked AMI to be the medical imaging service for them . We accepted — and we ’ ve been having fun the whole time . It ’ s been a great relationship with Atlanti- Care ,” Dr . Amerigo Falciani , AMI AtlantiCare Hammonton ’ s medical director , said .
Falciani said that Hammonton is “ very fortunate to have a facility like this complex we have .”
“ The services that we provide , I think , are beneficial for a lot of people in the community , like CAT scans , MRI , X-ray , mammogram , diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound . It ’ s an asset to the town of
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