LAFAYETTE, La. — Affordable healthcare can be tough to come by and even more challenging when it isn’t easily accessible. However, that could soon change for neighbors near Surrey Street, where word is spreading about a possible new community health clinic in the works.
The Iberia Comprehensive Community Health Center reportedly purchased the property for $750,000 on 1400 and 1402 Surrey Street. A former car dealership there was demolished in order to make way.
KATC reached out to Chief Executive Officer De'Marquis Hamilton with the ICCHC, who stated:
"We (Iberia Comprehensive Community Health Center) are thrilled about our expansion here in Lafayette, LA. Over the past few years, our Board of Directors has yearned to expand our service area here in Lafayette parish, so on behalf of our organization, I am pleased to announce to the community the commencement of this project which will bring additional services and jobs to our community. With our new state of the art health care center, we will merge our two locations currently located at 1004 Surrey Street and 1002 12th Street into one health center spanning over 30,000 square feet. Our new location at 1400 Surrey Street will offer medical, dental, mental health and pediatric services in addition to an in-house pharmacy which will be drive thru accessible.
Construction is currently underway and we look to have a completed project Summer 2026. In the meantime, you can still visit us at our current locations in Lafayette for your healthcare needs and we are also pleased to announce our dental services will be reinstated again in July of 2025 at 1004 Surrey Street."
Neighbors are already looking forward to the construction being completed.
“We had been asking questions what was going to be built there,” said Christine Gee, a resident who lives nearby.
The ICCHC currently operates several clinics across South Louisiana. They offer medical, dental, and wellness services aimed at improving community health—regardless of patients’ ability to pay.
“I’m so excited to know what is going to be built, because it’s going to be a very good environment for us, being that it’s a health facility right in our neighborhood,” Gee tells KATC. “It’s a blessing for us being in housing authority, disabled, and can’t move around or get rides to get where we need to go. This is truly a blessing to finally have something right across the street that’s able for us—that we can deeply appreciate.”
Currently, ICCHC already operates two facilities on Surrey Street. One is dedicated to pediatrics and the other that provides services such as family medicine, mental health care, and dental treatment.
To learn more about the ICCHC and if you want to make an appointment at a clinic near you, click here.
