Seguin Gazette: EXPANDING CARE Hospital plans to add doctors, facilities to accommodate area growth

Joe Martin Seguin Gazette

The Guadalupe Regional Medical Center will soon open an urgent care center to further expand its reach and help more patients in an expanding community.

Robert Haynes, Guadalupe Regional Medical Center chief operating officer, announced the coming changes Tuesday night during a regular meeting of the Seguin City Council. The publicly-owned hospital will add a new facility to GRMC’s holdings, Haynes said during a presentation of the hospital’s 2020 fiscal year budget.

“We got the opportunity to partner with a family practice physician from the New Braunfels area that has a very busy practice, and he’s coming to work in our medical group,” Haynes said. “He will be in the Clear Springs clinic, and we also tasked that clinic with having an urgent care center. We’re moving out into the urgent care business because it’s a pretty busy market and we really want to take advantage of that. We are in the service of serving the citizens of this community and county — actually, we serve about seven counties — and are very proud to do so. So we will be opening that center up in March of 2020.”

The announcement of the urgent care center comes with GRMC’s mission to adapt to Seguin’s rapidly growing populace.

“In the coming year, our goals are to expand our area of service,” said James Lee, Guadalupe Regional Medical Center’s chairman of the board. “Most of our patients mainly come from the 78155 area, but we want to expand our footprint further out because there’s a lot of growth out at (State Highway) 46, and all over Seguin. It’s really growing by leaps and bounds it seems.”

Along with a growing populace, the hospital’s service capabilities need to grow as well, Lee said. To that end, GRMC plans to expand its medical staff to keep up with demand, he said.

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