MORAN — As a Moran native, JoAnna Curl remains intimately aware of the community’s desires to see a medical clinic open once again.
Wishes granted.
Curl, a physician’s assistant with Allen County Regional Hospital, will begin treating patients at a clinic in Moran starting Thursday.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the clinic’s opening was Tuesday.
Curl will be the sole practitioner on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1 to 5.
“This is very exciting to see,” Curl said. “I’ve seen a lot of people in the community, and they’ve talked to me about wishing the Moran clinic was open.”
Curl, the former JoAnna Bland, is the daughter of Moran’s Melvin and Jonet Bland.
She is a Marmaton Valley High School graduate, “and I still live here,” Curl noted.
The clinic will offer family and preventative care; school and sports physicals; “welcome to Medicare” wellness exams; flu vaccines; women’s care; and minor surgeries and lacerations repair.
Appointments are encouraged, “but everybody is always welcome to come in and see if we can fit them in the schedule,” Curl said.
When not in Moran, Curl works at the hospital’s other clinic in Humboldt.
Before joining ACRH, Curl worked at the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Iola, and with Panacea Family Medicine in Chanute.
The Moran clinic is at 304 N. Cedar St. — the intersection of U.S. 59 and Randolph St. — and can be reached during business hours at (620) 237-4205. Messages can be left at the clinic at other times, or patients can call Curl at the Humboldt clinic (620) 473-3008.
