The growing state capital currently has around 58,000 inhabitants. In addition to the existing PVZ in Harland, another health center is to be built in the Viehofen district – with a direct catchment area of more than 27,000 people. The state of Lower Austria and the city of St Pölten have therefore developed an extension for the region with the ÖGK and the Lower Austrian Medical Association, the location was only recently fixed with the corresponding resolutions. This makes St. Pölten the only city in the state that will soon even have two primary care units.
The future team of five doctors includes health professionals from the fields of speech therapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, social work, dietetics and clinical psychology. After the resolutions have been passed, further steps will follow in the next few weeks.
Central contact point with extensive opening times
“I am pleased that the joint efforts to further improve medical care in the state capital are now bearing fruit,” says Mayor Matthias Stadler. St. Pölten’s mayor knows: “In addition to the resident doctors, this primary care unit expands the range of care in the growing parts of the city in the north. Future patients will benefit from a central point of contact with a wide range of offers and extensive opening hours.”
“A dense range of care in medical care is our claim and goal. With the health center model, we have an important building block for this, because here concentrated health know-how is combined under one roof for the benefit of patients,” emphasizes Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
