DIXON, CA (MPG) - NorthBay Healthcare, a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, has a mission to provide compassionate care and advanced medicine, close to home, and for Dixon, that means 1305 Stratford Avenue in the Safeway Shopping Center.

It will be in the former Chase Bank location and will occupy 4,094 square feet of a former bank building, feature eight exam rooms, X-ray services, a laboratory and will offer COVID testing.

NorthBay Urgent Care is collaborating with Carbon Health, a leading national healthcare provider, which already operates two successful centers in Vacaville and Fairfield and will open a third facility in American Canyon in May. Dixon’s facility is the fourth center in the region, and they hope to be open in August of 2022.

“It is a state-of-the-art urgent care center,” said Mary Jameson, Director of Urgent Care. “It’s a great model of service because life doesn’t just happen between 9 am and 4 pm. We participate with all insurances out there and have an agreement with [the military’s] TriCare.’”

The Dixon urgent care center will be similar to the others in that it will provide immediate medical attention for non-life-threatening conditions such as strep throat, cellulitis, broken bones, shingles, hives, abrasions and bug or animal bites. Most major insurance plans will be accepted, and a cash pay rate for the uninsured is available.

“NorthBay’s collaboration with Carbon Health to provide urgent care services throughout Solano County helps NorthBay fulfill its mission of providing innovative health care services to our community in a seamless service environment,” said NorthBay Healthcare Group President Wayne Gietz. “It’s the right care, when and where people need it most.”

It has proven popular with patients because it offers affordable, quality health care with shorter wait times and without the expense associated with a visit to an Emergency Room, noted NorthBay President and CEO B. Konard Jones.

“We will provide care for people of all ages, extending NorthBay’s standard for quality care, delivered by a team of clinical experts,” he said.

Once tenant improvements are complete this summer, the Dixon facility will offer an open and airy design, and convenient advanced technology kiosks for checking in. As an added convenience, the clinic will include “Virtual Urgent Care,” allowing patients to use their mobile phones to speak with an urgent care provider and get treatment for a range of conditions.

That is a long way from their humble beginnings in 1956 when community leaders determined Fairfield needed a hospital, and they initiated a fund drive to build one that would serve families throughout Solano County.

The doors opened in 1959 with a 32-bed non-profit Intercommunity Hospital. Expansion continued over the years with a healthcare facility, more beds, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. By 1987, they opened VacaValley Hospital and as the population of Solano County grew, they grew right alongside them adding North Bay Women’s Health, becoming the first Level III Trauma Center in Solano, and adding a wellness center. By 2020, NorthBay Urgent Care opened with more following including the new one in Dixon this summer.