The Mountain Park Health Center in Tempe is providing care for more patients than ever at its new location.  The Mountain Park Health Center celebrated the grand opening of its new Tempe clinic on Wednesday, a larger more efficient space that will continue to provide affordable healthcare to its patients. The new Mountain Park Health Center is 32 thousand square feet, a little more than three times the size of the old location near Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital. Mountain Park Health has eight locations scattered across Maricopa County. Despite talks of President Trump and Congress repealing former President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, one of the main goals of the clinics is to provide affordable healthcare to people in the communities they serve. Dr. John Swagert, the CEO of Mountain Park Health, also says that the kind of care that they provide helps attracts physicians. Their physicians like to work at Mountain Park Health because they don't have to worry about whether or not someone has good health insurance, their prime focus is on the patient and the care that they need. The clinic strives for sustainability. They are focused on looking at ways to keep people healthy. A sign of this is the cacti and trees planted all over. Trees are a good way to help bring the temperature down. There is a parking lot with a shade roof that has solar panels on top. Bonnie Richardson from the city's Urban planning department knows that it is important for people to be cared for when they are not sick as well as when they are. 

“I was hoping they would develop a landscape that did provide shade when people walk, cool the concrete, cool the paving and the parking lot and invite people to walk where it’s shaded,” Richardson said.“We know that walking and neighborhood opportunities to walk, really improve health and they understand that, they recognize that it isn’t just about taking care of people when they’re sick," Richardson said.