UI Health Care seeks to lease new home for Department of Family and Community Medicine

UI Health Care is requesting permission from the Iowa Board of Regents to sign a lease for a medical clinic at 2751 Northgate Drive on the east side of Iowa City. The new clinic will provide patients and community members with convenient, accessible primary care services and serve as the new home for UI Health Care's Department of Family and Community Medicine.

The 33,000-square-foot building is located minutes north of Interstate 80 and has excellent surface parking and building access for patients, faculty and staff. The location will house a large primary care clinic with 43 clinical exam rooms and a lab, as well as the Family Medicine residency program and Department of Family and Community Medicine's academic, research, education, and administrative staff.

"Family medicine physicians are the first point of care for many people, so it's crucial we meet patients where they live and work, which is out in the community," says Jeffrey Quinlan, MD, FAAFP, chair and department executive officer of Family and Community Medicine. "The new location will make it much easier for patients to reach us and for our teams to serve the community. This will also allow us to train future family medicine physicians in a community setting that is similar to the locations where they will go on to practice."