UC Health has opened a new facility in Walnut Hills, expanding medical care for adults with developmental disabilities. The new and improved center on Victory Parkway is meeting a big need here in the community. It’s an expansion of the Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Developmental Disabilities. The center has been around since 2022, but this new space was needed to keep up with the number of patients providers were seeing. That number is 1,800, and all those patients are adults with developmental disabilities. There’s also a waiting list of 500 people. UC Health officials here also track thousands of patients at Children’s who will eventually transition from pediatric to adult health care. The center’s old space only had three exam rooms; this one has 21. It provides everything from primary to behavioral health care, and dietary to social work. Health officials say adults with developmental disabilities are often overlooked in the health care system. They’re trying to fill a void by providing them with more access to high-quality medical care. “We feel like our community does a great job taking care of kids, and it’s really that void once people hit adulthood. That is what the Freeman Center was designed to meet,” Center Director Lauren Wang, M.D. said. “We wanted to be the welcoming access point that allows patients to access all the other specialty services that other people can access.” UC Health wants to set the precedent for this kind of holistic care.”There wasn’t enough physical space for even our staff to all be present,” Wang said. “We couldn’t have people on-site as much as we wanted until we came into this bigger space. We just completely outgrew that space, and we’re so grateful that we have the opportunity to come here and be in really one of the best facilities in all of UC Health now because this is what this population deserves, the best of the best,” Wang said.UC Health says it hopes to serve as a model nationwide for how other health systems can best serve these adults right in their own communities.
UC Health has opened a new facility in Walnut Hills, expanding medical care for adults with developmental disabilities. The new and improved center on Victory Parkway is meeting a big need here in the community.
It’s an expansion of the Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Developmental Disabilities.
The center has been around since 2022, but this new space was needed to keep up with the number of patients providers were seeing.
That number is 1,800, and all those patients are adults with developmental disabilities. There’s also a waiting list of 500 people.
UC Health officials here also track thousands of patients at Children’s who will eventually transition from pediatric to adult health care. The center’s old space only had three exam rooms; this one has 21.
It provides everything from primary to behavioral health care, and dietary to social work. Health officials say adults with developmental disabilities are often overlooked in the health care system. They’re trying to fill a void by providing them with more access to high-quality medical care.
“We feel like our community does a great job taking care of kids, and it’s really that void once people hit adulthood. That is what the Freeman Center was designed to meet,” Center Director Lauren Wang, M.D. said. “We wanted to be the welcoming access point that allows patients to access all the other specialty services that other people can access.”
UC Health wants to set the precedent for this kind of holistic care.
“There wasn’t enough physical space for even our staff to all be present,” Wang said. “We couldn’t have people on-site as much as we wanted until we came into this bigger space. We just completely outgrew that space, and we’re so grateful that we have the opportunity to come here and be in really one of the best facilities in all of UC Health now because this is what this population deserves, the best of the best,” Wang said.
UC Health says it hopes to serve as a model nationwide for how other health systems can best serve these adults right in their own communities.
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