A community “health village” — where University of Maryland Faculty Physicians will provide primary care services, such as annual wellness visits, pediatrics and geriatrics — is coming next year to the former Target store at Mondawmin Mall in West Baltimore. The University of Maryland School of Medicine announced Tuesday that it has agreed to lease 17,000 square feet of space at the shuttered store, which Tim Regan — president and CEO of the Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. — and his wife Joanne with the goal of creating a community hub to help revitalize the neighborhood and Mondawmin Mall.
The medical school’s Faculty Group includes 1,300 physicians and providers in more than 80 medical specialties and subspecialties. Along with primary care services, faculty physicians will offer more specialty care like cardiology, endocrinology and gastroenterology at the new practice, the medical school said in a news release. Physicians also will provide nutrition counseling, prenatal care, HIV and other infectious disease treatment, and mental health services.
“Our goal is to provide the highest quality of care to our community in West Baltimore by meeting them where they work and live,” said Dr. William Regine, president of the faculty practice, in the news release. “By establishing this community health village, we want to ensure that every resident has easy access not only to medical services but to prevention and health education programs that hel.
