Medical center holds open house Wednesday

QUINCY - The Quincy Valley Medical Center wants to share its new downtown outpatient clinic services with the community.

The center's open house is Wednesday at the clinic, at 406 S. Central Ave., from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

"We just opened the facility in early June of this year and so we just wanted to have an open house to kind of celebrate that," said center Rehabilitation Director Amy York. "It took a little while to kind of get all the equipment in place we wanted to furnish the building, that's why we haven't had it yet, but we've gotten most of the equipment that we will be furnishing the building with."

The clinic sees people in the community who need help with physical mobility, or those people who have had surgery or an injury and need to improve their physical functioning, York said. The clinic also offers stroke rehabilitation and hand therapy.

"People who have been injured on the job or people who have suffered any kind of an alteration in their mobility and would like to get back to doing what they were doing," York said.

York hopes people see the clinics' updated equipment and services.

"So that when they have needs for physical therapy, that they would feel comfortable coming to Quincy for their physical therapy needs and they don't feel like they need to travel to Moses Lake or Wenatchee," she said. "We have state of the art equipment and services here in Quincy to meet their physical therapy needs."

York sent out 300 invitations, but was unsure how many people would be in attendance.

The center is encouraging any students who might be interested in a possible career in physical therapy to attend.

"We're hoping to attract some college-bound students who might be considering physical therapy as a career or physical therapy assistance programs," York said.

A massage therapist and a yoga instructor who share space with the center with their own businesses but are not directly affiliated with the hospital are going to be on hand at the open house.

For more information, call 509-787-0569.