Inspire Health physicians and staff members cut the ribbon on a new primary care specialty office in Clovis, alongside city officials. (GV Wire/Edward Smith)
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A new primary care office in Clovis from Inspire Health — formerly Central California Faculty Medical Group — marks the first for the physician specialty group in decades.
The office at 2176 Shaw Ave. near Armstrong Avenue will house two doctors, a surgeon, and a nurse practitioner, Inspire Health CEO Joyce Fields-Keene said during a ribbon cutting on Thursday.
Fields-Keene said it’s been about 30 years since the group opened a facility, and they wanted a place for physicians training in their specialties to practice.
“We train in community medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine, so a lot of our graduates like to stay in the Valley,” Fields-Keene told GV Wire. “Some of them want to stay with the group, so we thought well, this is good synergy.”
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Doctors at the 9,200 square-foot office include Dr. Sireesha Reddy, family and community medicine associate professor with UCSF; Dr. Tania Zavalza Jimenez, family and community medicine assistant professor with UCSF; and nurse practitioner Jay Khatri, FNP-C-MSN, RN in family and community medicine.
Dr. Gerson Araujo will provide surgical consults.
Other doctors could rotate through as the practice grows, Fields-Keene said. Inspire had considered opening an office in Merced involving a partnership between UCSF and UC Merced.
Clovis Mayor Vong Mouanoutoua said having the office open expands health care access in the city.
“There’s not enough doctors. You not only are seeing patients, you’re training the next wave of doctors and after they train, their experience — hopefully a great one — will make them want to stay here in our community and serve the next generation of our kids and all the other kids,” Mouanoutoua said.
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