Crider Health Center Expands Wentzville Facility to Further Mission

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Wentzville, MO- The 43,000 square ft. expansion of Crider Health Center’s Wentzville Facility will be complete by the end of August 2010.  The new facility is estimated to serve an additional 6,500 patients who are uninsured, underinsured or living at or below poverty level.

Currently, the Wentzville facility offers mental health treatment and counseling, primary health care, pediatrics, lab services, immunizations, and a pharmacy to its patients.  These services will all be expanded and offered in the new facility by the end of August this year. 

Additional services to be offered throughout the 2010-2011 fiscal years include: dental (preventative, restorative, and emergency), gynecology, mammography and radiology.  Additional services will all be available by the end of August 2011.

“We have grown in the number of people we impact and in the range of services we offer to them, but our basic values and long term vision of full, productive healthy lives for everyone is remarkably consistent with where we began this journey,” said Dr. Karl Wilson, CEO of Crider Health Center. 

Crider Health Center has planned a Grand Opening Ceremony with Senator Bond September 17 from 4-6 pm.  Light refreshments and appetizers will be served and the public will have the opportunity to tour the new facility.  Dr. Karl Wilson, CEO of Crider and Senator Bond will speak during the opening ceremony.