Clinic and college officials participate in ribbon-cutting ceremony for Dunwoody health clinic Nov. 3: from left, front row: Ron Stark, Dr. Margaret Ehrlich, Dr. Gulshan Harjee, Suzanne Wetter; center row: Theodora Johnson, Christina Roberts, Patrice Smith, Andrease Brooms; back row: Frank Nash, Nigelyn Hibbert, Nicole Miller. (photo by Bill Roa)
Dr. Margaret Ehrlich gets her blood pressure checked by medical assistant Nicole Miller on opening day of the new Dunwoody Student Health Clinic. (photo by Bill Roa)
GPC Dunwoody Health Clinic opens its doors
Students, faculty and staff at Georgia Perimeter College’s Dunwoody Campus now have a permanent place to go if they are sick—or if they want to stay well.
The Dunwoody Student Health Clinic officially opened Monday, Nov. 3, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The clinic is in building NT, in a renovated trailer on campus.
With four exam rooms and a spacious waiting area, the new facility has a five-member staff, including a family nurse practitioner, a registered nurse and two medical assistants. The clinic offers flu shots free for students and $10 for faculty, staff and online students. Immunizations, lab tests, program-related physicals and smoking cessation aids are also offered
“I am very impressed,” said Dr. Gulshan Harjee, who attended the grand opening Monday. “The floor plan is beautiful.” A physician in Decatur, Harjee is the college medical director and oversees all GPC student health services.
The Clarkston Campus health center has closed for renovations through the end of 2014, but the mobile health clinic will still be traveling to all campuses.
“We had 91 people get their flu shots from the mobile clinic when it was at Dunwoody last month,” said Suzanne Wetter, the clinic’s nurse practitioner. “We are thinking we are going to be very busy here.”
For information on hours and services, go to www.gpc.edu/health.