Bringing Care Closer to Home Throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Region
In pursuit of our vision to be the leader in improving child health, Cincinnati Children’s continually looks for opportunities to bring care closer to home for children and families. This year, we opened several innovative locations throughout the region.
Our Brandon and Kelly Janszen Union location building is the first location in Northern Kentucky to offer both primary and specialty care. The Boone County facility, named for donors whose niece has received care from Cincinnati Children’s for many years, features important complements to primary care—including behavioral health counselors, lab services, X-ray and ultrasound—along with numerous specialty clinics.
In Kenton County, we opened our first urgent care in Northern Kentucky at our renovated Crestview Hills location. The urgent care offers after-hours and weekend visits with medical providers who specialize in pediatrics.
In Ohio, our Eastgate location provides improved access for families in Clermont County and other counties east of Cincinnati, parts of Northern Kentucky and West Virginia. The new medical building, located prominently along Interstate 275 near Ohio 32, features specialty clinics, behavioral health care including partial hospitalization services, outpatient surgery and an urgent care with evening and weekend hours.
“Some of the same surgeons and other medical providers who care for pediatric patients at our main campus in the city will now see patients at our new locations,” says Evaline Alessandrini, MD, MSCE, Cincinnati Children’s chief operating officer.
Eastgate also offers X-ray and ultrasound, lab services, a pharmacy and a nutrition clinic.
“I feel so grateful to have a location close to us with such a kind staff,” says one parent who used Eastgate’s urgent care. “We had never been to Cincinnati Children’s before, and everything went so smoothly. The nurse and doctor were so kind, and we didn’t have to wait long.”
Our new school-based health center at New Richmond Schools in rural Clermont County provides primary care, chronic condition management, well checks and sports physicals.
“About one-third of the students in our district don’t have a primary care medical provider, and our new school-based health center makes vital services convenient to local families,” says Paul Daniels, superintendent of the New Richmond Exempted Village School District.
The center, which is open to any child in the area, allows the district’s nearly 2,000 students to return to the classroom quickly and avoid unnecessary emergency department visits.
We also have expanded our pediatric primary care practices this year. Longtime local pediatricians Jeffrey Manser, MD, and Tina Gabbard, MD, now serve children at our Wilmington location. It’s the only pediatric-specific primary care office in the city and Cincinnati Children’s first location in Clinton County. In addition, our Loveland location offers regular checkups, sick visits, preventive screenings and vaccinations in northeastern Hamilton County.
