The Tribune

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

LUCAYAN’S Family Care and Concierge Ltd has reached its one-year milestone as a family medicine clinic in Freeport.

Dr Tiadra Dorsett Johnson said the public has welcomed them in the community, and they are “hopeful for the future”.

“We thank the public for making us their home clinic,” she said as they celebrated their first-year anniversary at the Lucaya Shopping Plaza.

“We love the location, and we have grown 100 percent,” said Dr Johnson.

“We do not want to be a statistic in GB where a lot of persons are looking at the economy and the financial situation and getting depressed. There are some businesses out there trying to meet the needs in the community, and we are very hopeful for the future and our sustainability,” she said.

The clinic has several family doctors on staff, including Dr Johnson, Dr Thompson-Major, Dr Robinson, Dr King-Strachan, and Dr Hutcheson, as well as a nursing staff.

They provide care for the whole family from infant to adult care, and geriatric care.

Dr Johnson encourages everyone to get a check-up. She said people can walk in for a blood pressure check.

“Many of the chronic diseases we are dying from such as hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and a lot of the cancers, are due to underlying risk factors of obesity,” she stressed.

She said our lifestyles may contribute towards these illnesses, which can be corrected if discovered early.

“So, finding out early, we can make steps to correct it and/or prevent it. It is best to find out things early so we can treat it or address that issue early. So do not be afraid to get a checkup because most things are preventable and can be cured.”

Dr Johnson said they encourage the whole family to come in together to get a check-up at one time.

In addition to clinic appointments, she said they also provide concierge care, which includes house calls.

“We go to the home and if there are persons disabled, bed-ridden, elderly, or have severe acute sickness like dehydration and pain we will put up a drip to give pain medicine, we do Covid testing, and start some evaluation to get them up and running,” she explained.

Dr Johnson said they provide urgent care, not emergency care.

“Emergency care is only available at the hospital. So, if there is an emergency like ongoing chest pains, heart attacks, strokes, they would be referred to the hospital,” she said.

“We do some urgent care. For example, if someone comes in with pain and dehydration sickness, we can assist, and if there is a sprain, we can wrap up the ankle.

“But we do not have an X-ray. If there are broken bones, we outsource that and still coordinate casting with a technician outside of hospital. We do coordinate care with all the other specialists and clinics on the island,” Dr Johnson said.

Dr Johnson said the doctors at the clinic are very experienced, with a minimum of 15 years of service.

She said the clinic has two new clienteles. On NHI (National Health Insurance) they have a doctor enrolling for new patients, and they also accept new cash and private patients. They are open weekdays from 8am to 7pm, and on Saturdays from 9am to 3pm.