Bond Clinic

Bond Clinic, P.A. is the largest outpatient clinic system in Winter Haven, Florida. It is one of two large clinic systems in the city, the other being Gessler Clinic, P.A. Bond Clinic has four locations in Winter Haven and one in nearby Lake Wales, Florida. Patients from a large area use the services of Bond Clinic.^[2][3][4][5]

History

Bond Clinic was founded in 1948 by four physicians, one being Dr. Benjamin Bond. The first office was established in June 1949 at the corner of Avenue A N.W. and 3rd Street. On the first floor was a local drugstore and Bond's office was on the second floor. By 1954 the clinic expanded from four to six physicians. At that time a new building was constructed for Bond Clinic on First Street, across from Winter Haven Hospital.^[6]

In 1978 Bond moved to its current main campus location, which was expanded over the years. The building now there runs the length of the block. In 2007, the clinic opened a satellite location at 199 Avenue B, NW, in downtown Winter Haven. Many services are now housed at that location. Bond opened clinics in several other locations through the years.^[7]

Bond Clinic is well known in the area for low pay and substandard working conditions, leading to unusually high turnover rates, errors due to new / untrained staff, and patient complaints.^[8]

Services

Bond Clinic has the following medical providers:

• Doctors of Medicine (M.D.) - 40
• Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) - 2
• Doctor of Physical Therapy - 1
• Nurse practitioners - 7 ARNPs

Bond Clinic offers a large range of outpatient services, including primary care, various radiology services and a full-service medical laboratory.^[9]

Clinic locations

Bond Clinic lists five locations in its website. These are located at these addresses and geographical coordinates:

• Main Campus - 500 E. Central Avenue, Winter Haven, FL 33880 28°01′19″N 81°43′11″W / 28.0219°N 81.7197°W / 28.0219; -81.7197
• Pediatrics - 45 Lake Elbert Drive, Winter Haven, FL 33880 28°01′18″N 81°43′00″W / 28.0216°N 81.7168°W / 28.0216; -81.7168
• Ophthamology and Vision Center - 506 Avenue A, SE, Winter Haven, FL 33880 28°01′15″N 81°43′10″W / 28.0208°N 81.7194°W / 28.0208; -81.7194
• Downtown Satellite Office - 199 Avenue B, NW, Winter Haven, FL 33881 28°01′28″N 81°43′43″W / 28.0244°N 81.7285°W / 28.0244; -81.7285
• Lake Wales Office - 1342 State Route 60 East (in the Orange Grove Plaza), Lake Wales, FL 33853 27°53′29″N 81°33′45″W / 27.8915°N 81.5625°W / 27.8915; -81.5625

The pediatrics and ophthamology units are adjacent to the main campus, as is the purchasing center, next to the ophthamology unit. The purchasing center has the following coordinates: 28°01′15″N 81°43′12″W / 28.0209°N 81.7201°W / 28.0209; -81.7201. The downtown satellite locations contains an anti-coagulation clinic, a diabetes clinic, a satellite laboratory, a physician's practice, an accounting office and the Women's Health Center. The Lake Wales location provides some of the services that are at the Winter Haven locations.^[10]

Ratings

The Healthgrades website provides very little information on Bond Clinic. However, the Vitals website provides patient reviews of physicians and wait times for physician visits. Bond Clinic as a whole is not rated by patient reviews. The patient reviews numbered 107 completed surveys as of August 2012. The reviews gave the doctors at the Clinic three of four possible stars. The overall wait time to see a physician at the Clinic, as provided by the patient reviews as of August 2012, was seventeen minutes. The national average wait time was twenty-one minutes.^[11]

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