KLCC: Rebuilt McKenzie River Clinic opens up on the same site where it burned down in 2020

KLCC | By Tiffany Eckert | Published October 28, 2024 at 5:10 PM PDT

Four years after it was destroyed in the Holiday Farm fire, the McKenzie River Clinic has been rebuilt on its original site in Blue River.

As community members cheered, East Lane County Commissioner Heather Buch cut the ribbon to the entrance of the new clinic on Oct. 25, 2024. The 3,350 square- foot health facility cost $2 million. The clinic features a community meeting space and a medical wing with exam rooms, labs, and a behavioral health section.

McKenzie Valley Wellness board president Val Rapp offered a quick tour. The secure medical wing features an airy and open space with lots of natural light pouring in. Rapp said that’s what they wanted.

“A clinic, that just of itself, would provide a healing and calming atmosphere,” Rapp said. “So many people here have been traumatized. Really, you have a population that has traumatic stress disorder of one degree or another.”

Orchid Health manages the medical practice at McKenzie River Clinic, which serves 700 patients.