A Walk-In for the Village

Sag Harbor Village has much to offer, but one area it has been lacking in is the medical one, according to Dr. Ilona Polak, who will open a walk-in practice there sometime next month.

Sag Harbor Medical Walk-In will be at 34 Bay Street, in the building housing GeekHampton and the Sag Harbor Cycle Company.

“I love the village,” said Dr. Polak, who is leaving Wainscott Walk-In Medical Care to venture out on her own. “I do have a lot of people who come and see me from Sag Harbor in Wainscott, and they really don’t have a doctor, or a walk-in, in the village.”

Dr. Polak, who is board certified in family medicine, has been in practice for more than 10 years and spent the past five in Wainscott after having left the Port Jefferson area. A native of Poland, she began medical school in Europe and then moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and later Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She finished her residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.

“You have to grow, so to speak, and develop,” she said of her decision to go into a private practice. She said she is thankful for her time at Wainscott Walk-In. “I really enjoyed working with Dr. [Blake] Kerr, and I will miss very much my supportive staff. They were always there to help me.”

Dr. Polak hopes to move in to her new space by the end of January, but doing so depends on the progress of the renovation now under way. She is excited to open her doors.

“Thank you to everyone — first of all to the Sag Harbor community for a very warm welcome; it means a lot,” she said.