NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The future of a doctor's office visit has arrived for those receiving health care at Western Connecticut Medical Group (WCMG) Newtown Primary Care and Health Specialists. The recently opened, state-of- the-art facility was built from the ground up with the goal of creating a different kind of patient care experience in mind. "You come into a beautiful facility, ...

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- What can a doctor's office learn from a department store? According to Richard Gemming, executive director of Western Connecticut Medical Group and vice president of Western Connecticut Health Network, the answer is a lot.Western Connecticut Medical Group recently opened its Newtown Primary Care Center, which Gemming hopes will become a model in primary care and ...

DANBURY, Conn. – Fifteen months ago Edward Lopes, 49, a police officer with the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, had a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (also called a gastric sleeve procedure) at Danbury Hospital.Since then, he’s lost more than 125 pounds and travels back to Danbury, more than 800 miles from his home, for follow-up appointments with his bariatric surgeon Dr. ...