Searching for health care

SCIPIO - To trust your life to another individual is an experience that most people are uncomfortable with, yet it is a common occurrence within the unique relationship between a doctor and his or her patient.

People are often with their primary care physician for most of their adult lives and find it difficult to search for a new care provider. The process can be complex depending on your current health situation, what type of insurance, if any, you have, and what physicians are even accepting new patients.

This can even be devastating when a significant population must look for new healthcare as a result of a practice or clinic closing. For example, the Finger Lakes Family Medicine Clinic in Scipio Center will be closing its doors in the near future as was announced in December of last year, by Auburn Memorial Hospital. The clinic was opened in 1996 as an extension of the hospital to serve an area that was federally designated to be without enough primary care physicians.