Further improving patient access to physicians, Banner Health announces the opening of two new family medicine offices in Northern Colorado.
Banner Medical Clinic-Highland Meadows and Banner Medical Clinic-North Loveland will open in November 2007.
The offices are the first to open under the name, Banner Medical Clinic, in Northern Colorado. They are part of Big Thompson Medical Group, which joined Banner Health in October 2006.
Banner Medical Clinic-Highland Meadows is at 8201 Spinnaker Bay Drive Suite D in Windsor. Two family medicine physicians will practice in this office.
Dr. Anthony Doft currently practices at Columbine Family Practice in Loveland. He completed medical school and his residency at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Dr. Doft has practiced at Columbine since October 1999.
Dr. Stacie Johns will join Doft at Highland Meadows. She is relocating from Whitsett, N.C. Dr. Johns graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her residency at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, N.C. Dr. Johns is currently a resident physician and newborn nursery physician in Greensboro.
To schedule an appointment with either physician, call (970) 223-2272.
Banner Medical Clinic-North Loveland will open at 3880 N. Grant Ave. Two family medicine physicians, Dr. Michael Wiggins and Dr. Christine Wildeman, will practice there.
Dr. Wiggins currently practices at Family Practice Associates in Loveland. He attended medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and completed his residency with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in the Rose Family Medicine Program in Denver. He has practiced in Loveland since December 2002.
Dr. Wildeman is moving to Loveland from Statesboro, Ga. She attended medical school at the University of Iowa and completed her residency with the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation Family Practice Residency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999. She currently is in family practice with the Family Health Care Center in Statesboro.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Wiggins or Dr. Wildeman, call (970) 203-0047.
“Banner Big Thompson Medical Group, Inc. is keeping pace with the growth of our communities by expanding our geographical area to accommodate the needs of our patients,” said Pete McNally, CEO of Big Thompson. “The quality of care provided to our patients has increased our volume significantly greater than the growth of the community. Since we have more patients coming to our clinics from outlying areas, we felt it necessary to open new clinics to meet their needs.”
Big Thompson Medical Group, which formed in January 1995, includes 45 family physicians in the areas of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology and allergy as well as hospitalists and urgent care specialists. BTMG employs 218 people.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system owns or manages 20 acute-care hospitals, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services including family medicine clinics, home care and hospice services, an Alzheimer’s institute and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.
To learn more about the Banner Medical Clinics, go to www.bannerhealth.com Keyword: Banner Medical Clinic CO.