Signature Healthcare opening new facility in East Bridgewater at old Compass Medical
EAST BRIDGEWATER − A new Signature Healthcare location is ready provide a "more convenient and comprehensive" health care experience for patients in East Bridgewater and the surrounding communities with a new multi-specialty medical facility on Route 18.
Signature Healthcare and Signature Medical Group are celebrating the opening of this new medical facility with an open house and ribbon-cutting.
The community is invited to attend the celebration, which will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at the new facility, located on Compass Way.
"This new Signature Healthcare location is great for East Bridgewater and the community," said Lorraine McGrath, associate vice president of marketing and communications at Signature.
The facility will offer patients the "much needed" primary care services along with additional access to medical specialties in the same building, right in their community, McGrath said.
The state-of-the-art facility will house a variety of new and expanded programs, including cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology, primary care, urgent care, as well as lab and radiology services.
"It becomes one-stop shopping," McGrath said.
If a patient needs a primary care doctor, lab work, radiology or to see a specialist, they can have it all done in that building, she said.
Former Compass Medical patients welcome
The new Signature Healthcare location is in the former Compass Medical building.
Compass Medical, the Quincy-based chain of medical clinics and urgent care facilities with locations in Easton, East Bridgewater, Taunton, Quincy, Braintree and Middleboro, abruptly closed all six of its offices in May.
This Signature Healthcare operation has nothing to do with Compass, McGrath said, but some Compass primary care providers and staff have joined Signature Healthcare and Signature Medical Group at different locations.
In totality, seven Compass primary care providers have joined Signature Healthcare and Signature Medical Group, McGrath said. Out of the seven, four are returning to this building.
“We have added 6,500 new patients into Signature Healthcare since the Compass bankruptcy," McGrath said, "and adding more daily."
Signature Healthcare is welcoming back former Compass patients.
“For the general public, they can go back to the exact same building and potentially have the same doctor that they did at Compass,” McGrath said.
Primary care and obstetrics offices at the Abington location will also be relocating to this new East Bridgewater location, McGrath said.
Open house and ribbon-cutting
The celebratory grand opening will include building tours, career recruitment opportunities, free on-site flu clinic and blood pressure checks, an "Ask a Doc table," children's activities, food and refreshments.
Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Signature Medical Group medical specialists, schedule appointments and explore its expanded services. Patient services will include financial counseling and a patient ambassador.
"We try to continue to provide services our community needs," McGrath said. "We look forward to offering expanded services in the community."
When will the facility open?
This new medical facility will begin seeing patients on Oct. 30, 2023.
The medical building is handicap accessible with plenty of free parking.
Patients can request a primary care appointment at MySignatureCare.org/EastBridgewater.
About Signature Healthcare
Since its founding as Brockton Hospital in 1896, Signature Healthcare has been servicing the Greater Brockton community for over 125 years.
Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital remains closed since Feb. 7, when a fire broke out in a transformer room.
Residents are reminded not to go to Brockton Hospital for emergency treatment. Instead, many reasons people go to the emergency room can be treated instead at urgent care centers. Signature Healthcare has a 24-hour urgent care center on the hospital campus at 650 Centre St. and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Signature Medical Group at 110 Liberty St.
For more information about Signature Healthcare, including services and locations, visit www.signature-healthcare.org.
Staff writer Kathy Bossa can be reached by email at kbossa@enterprisenews.com. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Enterprise today.
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