In 1952 it was necessary for the women to travel either to Tarpon Springs, Dunedin, or Clearwater if they wished to go to a hospital for delivery of a child. Dr. Gerald Sprankel realized the need for an obstetrical care unit closer to home and established the first clinic in the West Pasco area, the Richey Clinic, on Boulevard South. It was very similar to what Dr. Brookman, his predecessor, had hoped to build. It consisted of a reception room, examining room, treatment rooms, therapy department, laboratory, delivery room, a four bed ward, small kitchen, and laundry. All cooking and laundry was done on the premises. It was a total care unit for the young women who were having babies and for the first time in West Pasco a woman could receive competent obstetrical care without traveling many miles.

Mrs. Julie J. Obenreder was nurse-in-charge of the clinic, Mrs. Anna Gaines of Elfers, the nurse on call for night duty, and Mrs. Maida Uzzle of Port Richey was laboratory technician and all around assistant. New mothers and babies remained at the clinic for about three days, or longer if necessary. Though no accurate count was kept of the number of babies born during the eight years the clinic was in operation it is safe to say the number well exceeded six hundred as the patients came from the entire West Pasco area including Odessa and even many from Tarpon Springs.