Canton Urgent Care Center Opens

Dr. Denis Lafreniere, medical director of UConn Health’s outpatient services and associate dean for clinical affairs, is joined by Sen. Kevin Witkos and Rep. Tim LeGeyt, UConn Health faculty and staff, and guests at the Canton medical facility ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Sen. Kevin Witkos (R-Canton) and Rep. Tim LeGeyt (R-Avon, Canton) applauded UConn Health’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, held to celebrate the opening of its new medical facility and Urgent Care Center at 117 Albany Turnpike in Canton on Tuesday, October 13.

“UConn has been a great partner for our state and our community. This health care center is another important expansion of health care services in our area and I look forward to seeing it serve many families in many towns across northwestern Connecticut,” said Witkos.

“It’s quite appropriate as we open this facility to remember other residents on this spot who engaged in the same practice,” said LeGeyt.

UConn Health’s new facility is located where a house once stood that was built in 1796 by a well-regarded Revolutionary War physician and surgeon Dr. Solomon Everest. Everest provided health care to the community for almost 30 years.

“How incredible that the past, present, and future of medicine and Canton converge on this very spot,” LeGeyt said.

According to UConn Health, patients from over 100 towns and communities have been seen at UConn Health Canton since it opened in the spring, with the majority of patients coming from Canton, Avon, New Hartford, Simsbury, Torrington and Winsted.

The Urgent Care Center, open seven days a week, is staffed by certified advanced practitioners and board-certified emergency medicine or family practice physicians that can treat a range of health issues that are not life threatening, but need prompt attention. Services offered at the Canton location include internal medicine, primary care, cardiology, dermatology, MOHs surgery, a blood draw station, and X-ray services.

Photo courtesy of Senate Republican Office