Lexington Family Practice location opens in Gilbert
December 6, 2017
Kenya Cooper, MD, and Payton B. Foust, MD Accepting New Patients
Community members in the Gilbert area have a new health care option for family medicine. Lexington Medical Center has opened a new Lexington Family Practice location in Gilbert. This new practice in the Lexington Medical Center network of care provides comprehensive care for the entire family.
Lexington Family Practice Gilbert is in the former Lexington Medical Center Gilbert community medical center and offers on-site imaging, laboratory services, and school and sports physicals, in addition to well visits and same-day sick and urgent appointments. Like other Lexington Family Practice locations, patients will also have access to a Coumadin® clinic and mobile echocardiograms at the practice.
Kenya Cooper, MD, and Payton B. Foust, MD, are accepting new patients at the practice.
Dr. Cooper is new to Lexington Medical Center’s network of care. A Columbia native, Dr. Cooper earned her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts. She then completed her residency at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, South Carolina, where she served as co-chief resident. In addition to completing her family medicine residency, Dr. Cooper evaluated and treated patients at Self Regional Healthcare’s emergency care center and urgent care clinic and volunteered at the Greater Greenwood United Ministry’s Free Medical Clinic. In addition to certification by the American Board of Family Medicine, she has achieved certifications in advanced cardiovascular life support, advanced life support in obstetrics, fundamental critical care support, neonatal resuscitation and pediatric advanced life support.
Dr. Foust is a Lexington County native who grew up in the Gilbert area. He graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and completed his family medicine residency at Self Regional Healthcare. Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, he has additional certifications in advanced life support and critical care support. Prior to joining Lexington Family Practice Gilbert, Dr. Foust provided primary care to patients of all ages at Lexington Family Practice Otarre Pointe.
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Hours
Monday – Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
About Lexington Medical Center
Lexington Medical Center is a 438-bed hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs a staff of more than 6,500 health care professionals. The network also has cardiovascular and oncology care affiliated with Duke Health, an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and approximately 60 physician practices. Lexington Medical Center operates one of the busiest Emergency departments in South Carolina, treating nearly 100,000 patients each year. The hospital delivers more than 3,500 babies each year and performs more than 23,000 surgeries. Lexington Medical Center is currently undergoing the largest hospital expansion in South Carolina history by creating a new patient tower that will open in 2019. Lexington Medical Center has a reputation for the highest quality care. For more information, visit LexMed.com.
