The Central Shenandoah Health District is reopening a clinic in Waynesboro after more than a year. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
The Waynesboro-Augusta Health Department reopened on Monday at 540 Lew Dewitt Boulevard with limited services. The clinic closed in August of 2022 because their lease had run out.
Laura Lee Wight, Population Health Manager for the district, explained that it took so long to reopen because state agencies have to go through a lengthy process to rent a new property. They're currently waiting on state approval to offer vaccines at the new location.
LAURA LEE WIGHT: So what we have available currently to the public … includes access to vital records, so people can go into the Waynesboro-Augusta Health Department at our new location and get birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce and death certificates. They can also go in for environmental health permitting. And then later this year we anticipate our clinical services will resume, and those services are going to include immunizations and STI testing and treatment.
The health district serves the counties of Augusta, Bath, Highland, Rockbridge and Rockingham, and the cities of Buena Vista, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Staunton and Waynesboro. All seven of the health department locations are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
