After three years exclusively providing pediatric care, St. Tammany Health System’s Madisonville clinic at 1520 Highway 22 is transitioning back to caring for the whole family.
Dr. Catherine Pechon joined STHS in July and, operating out of the Madisonville clinic under the St. Tammany Physicians Network banner, is now accepting new patients. Pechon is a board-certified family medicine practitioner with interests in preventative healthcare and wellness, women’s health, and weight management.
St. Tammany Health System pediatricians, Drs. Jennifer Miles, Linda Keefer, Rob Faucheux, Margie Strong and nurse practitioner Perry Russell, will be relocating this fall to STHS Covington Clinic, 71338 Highway 21 in Covington.
The larger new pediatrics clinic will allow for additional onsite services for patients and is much closer to the health system’s Covington hospital.
“We’ll be closer to the hospital, have a bigger office and, because we’re roomier now, have more services,” said Faucheux, chairman of the STHS Department of Pediatrics.
The move of the pediatrics practice from Madisonville to Covington is expected to be complete by mid-September.
The Madisonville clinic’s new family-care practice is equipped to see patients as young as two, as well as their older siblings, parents, and grandparents.
“That’s the thing that drew me to family medicine: the relationships you develop, seeing different generations of the same family,” she said. “That’s absolutely one of the things about family medicine that’s unique in a way. You build relationships. We see kids grow up and maybe see their kids when they start their own families.”