Lincoln Wellness Center Open

Nurse Says Clinic Sees All Ages

LINCOLN — Lincoln Wellness Center, located on the campus of Lincoln Middle School, sees students from the school district but also is available to anyone in the community and surrounding area, according to Charrae Potter, advanced nurse practitioner.

The clinic is open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and is on Lincoln Middle School campus, in a building that once housed Lincoln High School’s home economics program.

The clinic, at 573 County Ave., accepts walk- in patients and patients by appointment. Phone number is 479-824-2000. Lincoln Wellness Center opened fulltime in October 2014, and is now operated by Community Clinic, a health care ministry of St. Francis House NWA. Community Clinic has six school-based practices in Washington and Benton counties, in addition to other medical clinics.

Potter has five years’ experience as an advanced nurse practitioner.

She previously worked in acute care with Care Express in the Walmart Supercenter at Pleasant Grove and has been with Community Clinic since October 2014. Other staff in the Lincoln Wellness Center are Lynette Rojas, medical assistant and lab technician, and Christinia Seward, medical and administrative assistant.

The clinic offers sports physicals, TB skin tests, flu shots, acute visits for symptoms such as cold, cough, sore throat or fever, well child visits and chronic care for conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The clinic also has a smoking cessation program, a lab on site and accepts Medicaid and Medicare. For patients without insurance, it offers a sliding scale fee based on income.

Potter said she is enjoying a school-based medical clinic.

“I like working with kids,” Potter said. “It is slower paced then other clinics but we’re here for the whole community.”

She said the clinic will see anyone age “zero to 100.”

Tyler Cl a rk, deve l - opment director with Community Clinic in Springdale, said Lincoln Wellness Center has been a “good fit” for the Lincoln School District and the community. The key now, he said, is to get the word out the clinic is available to the public.