Large healthcare provider Optum announced massive location closings for New Jersey, which locally impacts Primary Care offices in Mount Ephraim, Runnemede, Cherry Hill and Medford.
According to the website location pages the closing date is December 1st, but unofficially an employee in one of the locations says they stop seeing patients earlier… November 26th.
Patients can request their records online at the Optum website.
According to the Optum location page and other media outlets, it would seem that the two Vineland Urgent Care offices will remain open, as will a Cardiology Office in Cherry Hill.
Over the last few days media outlets have been reporting that up to 90 New Jersey locations are closing, with over 550 employees impacted.
Optum is a division of United Health Group (which also operates the United Healthcare Insurance division)… and it seems there is no official press release on the closings at any of their websites.
News of the closings started trickling out when patients notified via email, and the NJ WARN list was updated to indicated over 500 employee jobs were at risk. Now, location pages at the Optum website have been updated stating a December 1st closing for the impacted locations
The Optum medical office division has a variety of specialty care services… and the closings impact locations across 14 different office types including Primary Care, Cardiology, Podiatry, Pediatric and more.
An Optum representative told NJ Advance Media that the decisions were part of a commitment to make healthcare more affordable… regularly reviewing services, location footprint and staffing levels.
In the South Jersey 42Freeway area the most impacted aspects are Primary Care offices located in Runnemede, Mount Ephraim and Cherry Hill.
The Mount Ephraim location is located at 2 South Black Horse Pike, which is at the intersection of Kings Highway. That building sits at the corner, in front of a large CVS Pharmacy. Recently across the street a Walgreens Pharmacy closed.
The Runnemede location for Optum is at 165 South Black Horse Pike which is the intersection with Evesham Road. This building is part of a newer strip mall center that also has Primo Hoagies and Advanced Auto Parts. Runnemede’s St Theresa’s church is across the street, and also a Walgreens Pharmacy closed at another corner and has now reopened as a Dollar General.
The Cherry Hill location at 2322 Route 38 is located close to the former Cherry Hill Diner, in the area of Olive Garden and Longhorn.
At this time it appears a Cherry Hill Cardiology office will remain open, as well as two Vineland Urgent Care locations
While it’s too early to know what could become of these locations, many of the Optum locations are newer modern construction buildings and one would hope that other medical or urgent care facilities would see this as an inexpensive and quick way to step in and grow their footprint in South Jersey.
Links and Locations
Website: Optum Medical