St. Johns County needs affordable primary care, and its residents need it after 5 p.m. A solution is already in the works. A new walk-in primary care center is proposed across U.S. 1 from Flagler Hospital at the new county Health Department. The proposal allows the center to be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. It also provides a sliding scale, based on salary, for payment.
Insured patients are welcome.
Dr. James Walker, director of the Health Department, has been instrumental in developing the proposal. Of the hundreds of applications, the clinic made the short list of 76. The grant will fund 15 to 20 applications. In February, Walker will know if the grants panel will visit St. Johns County. The other comes from the state's Aid to Local Governments program.