Doctor joins Good Shepherd Urgent Care

Published 4:50 pm Thursday, March 4, 2021

Good Shepherd Health Care System has welcomed Dr. Stewart Swena to Good Shepherd Urgent Care.

Swena joins several other doctors at the urgent care clinic, located at 1050 W. Elm Ave. in Hermiston.

The clinic is open seven days a week for urgent care, and also provides primary care Monday through Thursday.

According to a news release, Swena had already been working in medicine in Hermiston for “many years,” most recently in Good Shepherd Medical Center’s emergency room for the past 10 years. He originally came to Hermiston to work with Dr. Douglas Flaiz at Family Health Associates.

The release states he is board certified both in Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, with more than 20 years of primary care experience. He completed his residency at Florida Hospital Medical Center in Family Practice after obtaining his Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Swena said in a statement that primary care medicine is important to the health of a community, and seeing how most of the patients who have died of COVID-19 had chronic diseases or other risk factors helped inspire him to get back into primary care.

“With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, when you look at the risk factors for severe disease and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary disease, COPD; all of those can be helped significantly and in some cases reversed with Lifestyle Medicine,” he said.

To schedule an appointment, call 541-567-2995 or visit www.gshealth.org/good-shepherd-medical-group/good-shepherd-urgent-care.

Good Shepherd Urgent Care also accepts walk-in patients.