 The Lakewood Health System held an open house for community members today to tour the recently expanded Pillager Clinic. The $8,000 expansion and renovation project began in November 2016 and will add 13 new and remodeled exam rooms, a procedure room and staff offices. The Pillager Clinic expansion is a part of a larger Lakewood expansion in terms of clinic and staffing. Well, you know, right now we're having a lot of growth. Last year we increased about 4% and this year we're increasing our clinic visits about 3%. So with that growth we're adding new providers and by us adding and we're adding a new family medicine physician Dr. Caitlyn Schek starts, Dr. Janie Bueno starts. We are excited about them joining us and so we had to find room for them along with the increased clinic activities. So that's why we've got this project going on. So we see a lot of growth, a lot of, we want to improve the facility and so this is why we got the project going. The expansion part of the Pillager Clinic was the first part of the project with the renovation of the old clinic now underway. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakewood News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakewood and public television.