Dr. Baltazar Corcino and Registered Nurse Laura Nearhood review a patient chart at the Susquehanna Wellness Clinic in Clearfield. Registered Nurse and Practice Manager Megan Patrick looks up from her computer screen at the Susquehanna Wellness Clinic on Daisy Street in Clearfield. She turns to her colleague and fellow registered nurse Laura Nearhood. “He’s been in with this patient for two hours,” Patrick says. “What other doctor would do that?”
Mature Resources, a subsidiary of the Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging, (CCAAA) opened the Susquehanna Wellness Clinic at 28944 Frenchville Karthaus Highway in Frenchville in 2020. The agency followed that with the opening of a second location in the former PennDOT building on Daisy Street in Clearfield in 2022.
Though Patrick has worked with Dr. Baltazar Corcino since the clinic’s inception, she is still in awe of the personal investment he makes in the care of his patients. Corcino explains his commitment saying, “I take time with my patients. Some have concerns, some are anxious. When they leave, they’re not so anxious any more. That’s because I take all the time they need to talk with them, explain things to them, and to really hear them. I don’t hurry them. I listen. I listen for as long as it takes to put them at ease; and we schedule appointments in a way that allows that extra time without making others wait.”
When the patient emerges from the exam room, she’s smiling, indicating that Corcino’s methods work. The veteran in the medical field has been in practice since 1965, yet his colleagues say his passion and enthusiasm is just as strong as it was nearly six decades ago. That’s what keeps him in the white coat when he could be enjoying retirement.
