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FAIRFIELD, IOWA -- Just weeks after a walk-in clinic opened its doors in the City of Bridges, another will soon be opening in Eldon.

The Fairfield Clinic will be opening an outreach clinic next month. A clinic previously associated with Ottumwa Regional Health Center closed in 2009, and since, the community has expressed a need for healthcare to return to the area.

"The community had a need and we needed to re-establish healthcare, so we decided that that would be something that we would like to embark on," said project manager Jolaine Coop. "It's a new adventure for us. We know how to run an office and the doctors know how to practice medicine, but we've never done one outside of our own confinements, so that's where it kind of began."

The Fairfield Clinic began walk-throughs and negotiations with Eldon city officials in February, and with everything now agreed and completed, they hope to open July 10. The clinic will be open Tuesdays and Fridays, with appointments being taken from 1:30-4:30 p.m., with some walk-ins being taken.

"We do plan to offer flu clinic when the season is there, we have already agreed to do the Cardinal athletic physicals, we'll be doing those in August," Coop said. "We will have limited services, we won't have a complete lab and we won't have x-ray, but we made arrangements with Jefferson County Health Center for some of our lab services."

Two doctors currently staffed at the Fairfield Clinic, one a resident of Keosauqua and the other of Batavia, will alternate days at the new Eldon Outreach Clinic.

As of now, a phone number for the Eldon location hasn't been established, but anyone with questions should call the Fairfield office at 641-472-4141.