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Elko Community Health Center rebrands as Convergence Health; announces specialty services and local surgical, cardiac advances
Summary
Community Health Development Partners said its Elko clinic will change its public name to Convergence Health, add specialty services including neurosurgery and periodic gynecology clinics, and offer a drug‑coated balloon procedure in its cath lab, leaders told the Board of Health.
Ownership of the Elko community clinic remains the same though the facility will rebrand as Convergence Health, the owner and administrators told the Elko County Board of Health.
"We're changing our name from Elko Community Health Center so we don't get confused with the Nevada Community Health Center. Ownership hasn't changed, nothing. It's just rebranding a new name for some clarity," said Mike Clark, CEO of Community Health Development Partners, which owns the clinic.
Clark and Eric Scott, the local administrator, said the clinic (soon to be called Convergence Health) has served more than 2,000 patients and reported high patient satisfaction scores in a recent survey: Clark said 100% of respondents rated the facility as clean and safe and 97% said clinicians made sure patients were comfortable.
The facility is expanding specialty services. Clark said the clinic has added a neurosurgeon (Dr. Rajaman) and will bring in gynecologists periodically for women's health; a physician is shifting time to focus on women's health to support those visits. Clark described a telehealth relationship that allows oncology infusion locally through a partnership with Intermountain.
The clinic also reported a cardiac innovation: it is the second facility in Nevada to use a drug‑coated balloon in its cath lab, a technique for treating restenosis within previously placed stents. Clark said Dr. DeShuter will perform the procedure in partnership with Boston Scientific.
Clinic leaders said they are recruiting additional surgical staff, including efforts to bring general surgeons and total‑joint specialists to serve the area more often. The board welcomed the additions and asked about clinicians’ residency status; Clark said some specialists will be visiting subspecialists while the organization aims to recruit more full‑time, locally based physicians as volume supports it.
The board did not take formal action on the report.
