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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Centra opens new medical center

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Centra Primary Care Center

A new medical center has just been opened by Centra Southside Community Hospital. The center will serve Farmville and the surrounding seven counties.

Centra has opened the new medical center in order to provide more medical care for the community. In 2012, Centra conducted a community health needs assessment in order to identify any missing or urgent needs for the area. One of the greater needs was a center for primary care.

“You couldn’t get an appointment here [hospital]. You couldn’t get an appointment for months for primary care. People were using our emergency room for primary care, which is very expensive,” says Kerry Mossler, the Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the hospital.  

Located on Main Street, the new medical center cost a total of $12 million to build, and includes services such as primary care, digital X-rays, laboratory services, nephrology, psychiatry, diabetes care, orthopedics and rehabilitation services and general internal medicine.

Over 1,000 people were in attendance at the grand opening for the medical center on Sunday, August 30. Attendees were able to tour the new center and learn more about the services it will provide to patients.

According to Mossler, the delay in bringing a medical center to Farmville was due to the priority of completing renovations in the hospital. “It was long overdue… the community was waiting for this and was very excited about this coming,” said Mossler.

The center employs around 50 staff members, 35-38 of which were transferred from the hospital. The hospital held a job fair which staffed the remaining 12-15 positions in need.

“I think it’s in such a central part of town that people have seen the construction and have been very excited, because it’s been fun to watch it come together,” says Mossler.

The center will be open to walk-ins and will see anyone, regardless of whether they have insurance or not.

“It operates like the emergency room in the way that we treat everyone. If you don’t have insurance, you can still come. If you can’t pay your copay, you can still come. Everyone will be seen,” says Mossler.

The center officially opened on Monday, August 31, and is open every day except Sunday.

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