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Fall is here! While we someday hope to return to a somewhat normal situation - working with the COVID-19 pandemic this seems to be our new normal for now.
We are still holding with our policies. Every single person will be asked to wear a mask covering nose and mouth at ALL TIMES and temperatures will be taken at the door. No one can enter the building without a mask and a normal temperature.
We are still separating the clinic into "well" and "sick" blocks.
Sick patients with fevers and symptoms associated with the COVID-19 virus will be seen outside at the cone parking in the tent by appointment. An MA will come out to your car to assess your symptoms and determine if you meet the criteria for COVID-19 testing or since Influenza is right around the corner whether you feel you should be tested for COVID, Influenza or Strep . There is now a lab test that will check for COVID as well as Influenza A & B but it takes a few days to get the result. Other sick patients are being brought in later in the afternoon through a separate door on the East side of the clinic.
WELL PATIENTS from 8am - 12:00 and 1:45 to 4:00 will enter through the lobby. Sick patients will be entering through a separate entrance and kept in a certain section of the clinic.
PLEASE IF YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT DURING THE WELL HOURS AND FEEL SICK OR HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO SOMEONE WITH COVID-19 - PLEASE BE HONEST AND TELL US. YOU WON'T BE TURNED AWAY BUT WE MAY RESCHEDULE YOU THE SAME DAY IF WE FEEL IT WOULD BE SAFER TO HANDLE YOUR APPOINTMENT.
We are still doing telemedicine appointments as well where we can do your visit over the phone until such time as your insurance tells us we can no longer do telemedicine.
We will continue to follow the guidance from the Arizona Department of Health Services in regards to when we can release a patient back to school, work, etc. The current recommendations are under comments. Please understand that we cannot give you a note to return unless these recommendations are followed.
We will continue to update you as we go along. Our thanks to all our patients for being so understanding during this time.
Dr. Elisa Troyer is a Board Certified Family Physician with OB. She will be joining our practice on October 12, 2020. She is originally from Virginia. She attended Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia and completed her residency at North Colorado Family Medicine in Greeley, Colorado.
Dr. Troyer enjoys caring or patients of all ages, and is fluent in English and Spanish. She has enjoys participating in medical missions and even organized a group of 11 women for a week of medical care throughout rural Honduran villages. She enjoys gardening, hiking, knitting, new food, and living cross-culturally.
She is very excited to join our clinic and to make the Gila Valley her home.
We are still experiencing intermittent phone problems. We will be putting a new system in place in the next couple weeks. Thank you for your patience. Remember if you can't get through the 928-428-1377 - try 928-428-1692.
Well-established primary care clinic in Safford, Arizona seeks Nurse Clinical Manager: RN or LPN skilled at management to oversee clinical operations of patient care including training, scheduling and supervising clinical staff, as well as some case management. Send complete resume to Donna Coca at Gila Valley Clinic, 1680 S. 20th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546, or email dscoca@gilavalleyclinic.com.
GILA VALLEY CLINIC, PC
Nurse Clinical Manager
We get our new phone system today!!! We hope that after today there will be no more problems getting through to us. The movement from the old system to the new system will occur around 10am so if you have a problem - please message us here. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
GILA VALLEY CLINIC, PC
Nurse Clinical Manager
Gila Valley Clinic, PC posted a job.
October 23 at 2:58 PM ·
Well-established primary care clinic in Safford, Arizona seeks Nurse Clinical Manager: RN or LPN skilled at management to oversee clinical operations of patient care including training, scheduling and supervising clinical staff, as well as some case management. Send complete resume to Donna Coca at Gila Valley Clinic, 1680 S. 20th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546, or email dscoca@gilavalleyclinic.com.
Gila Valley Clinic, PC posted a job.
October 23 at 2:58 PM ·
Well-established primary care clinic in Safford, Arizona seeks Nurse Clinical Manager: RN or LPN skilled at management to oversee clinical operations of patient care including training, scheduling and supervising clinical staff, as well as some case management. Send complete resume to Donna Coca at Gila Valley Clinic, 1680 S. 20th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546, or email dscoca@gilavalleyclinic.com.
Graham County had 153 New cases from 11/11-11/13. BE SAFE!
November 14th COVID update for our patients - as you are probably seeing in the local news, the number of COVID-19 cases is surging here in our local area. Effective Monday, November 16th we will be changing things again to try to protect both our patients and our staff. We will return to doing many of the well visits for our patients by telemedicine as well as chronic follow ups such as diabetes and hypertension by telemedicine to review your current lab results.
We will extend the tent hours as needed to be sure that we can see and test the patients that need to be tested. Please remember that in order for these tests to have accurate results, we will only test patients will COVID symptoms. We will NOT test if you have no symptoms but have been exposed. This is to reserve the tests for those patients that need to be tested.
Our hope is to reduce the number of people in our lobby and in our clinic and keep more people at home where it is safer. We will continue to have any sick patients WITHOUT COVID symptoms come in the afternoon and enter the side door as we have been doing.
We will have our younger pediatric patients enter through the door on the West side of our clinic and will do immunizations by appointment through that door as well every afternoon between 3 and 4:30 as we do not want your children getting behind on their immunizations.
Lab hours will remain the same for the time being as we want to be sure our patients are staying current on their lab work. We believe that we will make it safer by having less people in our lobby.
We will continue to update you as it goes, but we anticipate this will remain in effect through at least the end of November and possibly into December.
UPDATE!!!! We are now scheduling for 65 and older and patients of GVC - we will be doing a COVID VACCINE clinic on Saturday the 6th of February. Call 928-432-8400 or 928-428-1692 to get on the schedule. We still have afternoon appointments available. You can also comment your name here and we can call you.
Gila Valley Clinic, PC updated their business hours.
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UPDATE!!!! We are now scheduling for 65 and older and patients of GVC - we will be doing a COVID VACCINE clinic on Saturday the 6th of February. Call 928-432-8400 or 928-428-1692 to get on the schedule. You can also comment your name here and we can call you.
If you are 75 or older and patients of GVC - we will be doing a COVID VACCINE clinic on Friday the 29th of January. Call 928-432-8400 or 928-428-1692 to get on the schedule. You can also comment your name here and we can call you. We are anticipating dropping the age within the next week.
