The staff at About Face MedSpa & Wellness  love seeing our patients in Bristol for weight loss!   However, some of you have asked if we have thought of adding another location – to help with our sometimes crowded and busy lobby.

Recently, we discovered an opportunity that might help in this regard.

A number of years ago, Sue Cressel, NP, Owner of About Face MedSpa & Wellness was employed by Wellmont in their Mendota, Virginia  clinic as the  Nurse Practitioner.   There were very few Nurse Practitioner-run clinics during this era.    Sue, with her beloved supervising physician, the late Dr. Tom Townsend, worked to gain trust and build a successful practice.  Likewise, she developed deep roots in the rural community.   Sue remained in the clinic until Wellmont made the decision to close their rural clinics.   With this closure, however, the idea of owning her own business blossomed, and About Face was born.   We all know how that story has unfolded!

Recently, she learned that the Mendota building where she had worked and met so many wonderful people was available.   It not only was available, it had been empty for a number of years.    The building and the community that owned it needed a tenant.

And then, an idea developed.  Why not rent the building and offer the same great weight loss services that we do in Bristol – but at a little slower pace?

Some may say we’re crazy, but that’s what we are doing.  You see – for Sue, this decision is not all about business.  It’s about helping a rural community that means something to her.  It’s about remembering people who supported her back when a  Nurse Practitioner Clinic was very uncommon.

We hope you are pulling for us.  We hope you will come see us – in Mendota as well as Bristol.

Beginning Thursday, September 26, About Face MedSpa & Wellness will be open for weight loss clinic on Thursdays and Fridays at 2534 Mendota Road, Mendota, Virginia.   A nurse practitioner will be on site from 11 am until 2 pm.   While walk-ins will be welcome,  a limited number of appointments will also be available for those of you who wish to keep to a tighter schedule.  We will not take so many appointments that walk-in patients will have to wait an excessive amount of time.   Whether you need to get started with your weight loss  journey or simply need your weekly injection of Tirzepatide, Semaglutide, Lipovite or B12, we’d love to see you in Mendota on a Thursday or Friday.

For those of you who wish to support us and visit our rural weight loss clinic, we  open our phones up for appointments or additional information beginning Monday, September 23 from  10 am until 3 pm.     Call 276.285.3223 (beginning Monday!)