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Summary: The Midwest Medical Center (Galena, Illinois) is a nonprofit healthcare facility founded in 2007 and headquartered in Galena. It offers a broad range of services including behavioral health, rehabilitation, primary care clinics, senior care, a pharmacy, fitness programs, classes, and an athlete performance academy. The center emphasizes quality, compassionate care with low ER wait times and a state-of-the-art facility. It operates six offices nationwide (principally in Galena and Elizabeth, IL) and employs about 44 people. For ophthalmology-specific information, the page provided does not detail ophthalmology services; consider contacting the center or checking their site for any ophthalmology/eye care offerings.

Clinic Type

Optometry

Address

1 Medical Center Drive, Galena, Illinois 61036, US

Phone

815-777-1340

Email

jkeeffer@midwestmedicalcenter.org

Opening Hours

Not published — contact the clinic to confirm hours.

Services Offered

  • Ophthalmology
  • Eye care
  • Cataract treatment
  • General ophthalmology services
  • Fuerste Eye Clinic Ophthalmology

Team

  • Dr. Justin Risma, MD — Ophthalmology - Fuerste Eye Clinic

Insurance & Payment

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What Patients Say

Overall sentiment across review platforms: positive

  • CMS HCAHPS (Momentary Labs analysis): 5 out of 5 stars (133 patients (CMS HCAHPS))
  • Facebook: 70% recommendation rate (25 reviews)

Patients praise

  • Consistently high willingness to recommend the facility (96%)
  • Excellent patient experience scores from CMS/HCAHPS surveys
  • Strong communication from doctors and nurses
  • High cleanliness ratings

Common complaints

  • Some users have provided lower ratings on social media platforms compared to clinical metrics

Synthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].

Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 11, 2026.

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