Sixteenth Street to open a new health clinic
Facility expected to be ready late next year
Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers plans to provide additional primary care and other services at its clinic on Cesar E. Chavez Drive by opening a second clinic basically across the street.
The new clinic would be in the first floor of a four-story building planned for the opposite corner of Sixteenth Street's existing clinic at Chavez Drive and Washington Street.
It is expected to open late next year.
The 13,000-square-foot clinic, 1135 S. Cesar E. Chavez Dr., would provide primary and specialty care as well as preventative dental care, said Alison True, a spokeswoman for Sixteenth Street. It also will have a full-service pharmacy.
The top three floors of the building will be apartments.
Sixteenth Street will own its part of the building and Cardinal Capital Management will own and operate the apartments, Sixteenth Street said in a news release.
Froedtert Health is giving the community health center $6 million to help pay for the expansion.
The health system pledged $12 million in May 2015 for a new clinic in the area south of Miller Park, but Sixteenth
Street has been unable to find a suitable location.
That clinic has been postponed. The new clinic will have the equivalent of four full-time physicians, nurse practitioners or physician assistants and is expected to provide primary care to an additional 8,000 people.
The clinic also will have two dental hygienists and two dental assistants.
Dental hygienists can provide preventive care under the supervision of a physician.
Sixteenth Street has three clinics in Milwaukee and one in Waukesha. The community health center, which employs 390 people, provides primary and behavioral health care as well as other services to almost 40,000 people.