Nebraska Medicine plans to start construction this month on a new 12,000-square-foot primary care clinic in the Elkhorn area.

The new clinic is part of Nebraska Medicines expansion of primary care services to west Omaha. The health system will open Nebraska Medicine-Chalco on the southwest corner of 168th Street and Giles Road in mid-September.

The Elkhorn clinic will open in April at 204th Street and Blue Sage Parkway. Like the Chalco clinic, it also will offer urgent care services, which Nebraska Medicine calls immediate care, in the evening and on weekends and holidays for minor illnesses and injuries, sore throats and earaches and minor cuts and sprains. The urgent care location will be Nebraska Medicines fifth in the metro area and its first in the Elkhorn area.

The construction of new primary care clinics across the metro demonstrates how committed we are to providing access to our services closer to where our patients live, Dr. Dan DeBehnke, Nebraska Medicines chief executive officer, said in a statement.

The new clinic will feature 15 exam rooms, five consultation rooms, a procedure room and radiology services.

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