Ohio Health Center: Ralph Newman DO

Ohio Health Center: Ralph Newman DO is a medical clinic in Columbus, OH. Operating as a walk-in family practice, the clinic serves patients from babies to grandparents without requiring appointments, ensuring that anyone who arrives feeling ill can be seen the same day. The clinic is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm and treats patients from Columbus and Franklin County. Services include female wellness exams, breathing tests, EKGs and X-rays, immunizations, physicals, DOT physicals, and sports physicals, along with management of chronic conditions such as COPD, high blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid disorders, and arthritis. The clinic holds a rating of 3.20 based on 23 reviews.

The clinic is led by Ralph Newman D.O., a board-certified family physician who has served as President and CEO of Ohio Health Center since 1993. Joining him is Bernard J. Palma, MS, D.O., CPE, a healthcare provider since 1991 who graduated from A.T. Still School of Osteopathic Medicine and is board certified in pain education, ambulatory medicine, and general medicine, with research interests in diabetes prevention and care with oral agents. Michael Barleycorn, PA-C, has been with Ohio Health Center since 2006, bringing experience in family practice, emergency medicine, internal medicine, orthopedics, and plastic surgery since 1978 following his service in the Army as a medical corpsman and radiographic technician and his training at Pennsylvania State University. The clinic's specialty offerings span alcohol and drug counseling, cardiology, dentistry, home health care, hypertension and nephrology, lab services, neurosurgery, pharmacy, physical therapy, psychology, vascular testing, and X-ray. Ohio Health Center accepts most insurance plans including Medicaid, United Healthcare, Medicare, Molina, and Caresource.

The clinic sits at 1000 East Broad Street in Columbus, with a COTA bus stop directly in front of the office and a large parking lot on site. It is located in the Olde Towne East neighborhood, with King-Lincoln Bronzeville nearby, and is within roughly half a mile of Ohio Avenue Street Park, Blackburn Park, and the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services.

For more than three decades, Ohio Health Center has offered walk-in access to an unusually broad range of medical services under one roof on East Broad Street, making it a long-standing fixture of family healthcare in the Olde Towne East area of Columbus.

Services:

• Breathing Tests
• Chronic Illness Management
• Family Practice
• Immunizations
• Physicals