New clinic will address lack of healthcare resources in south Fulton County
Morehouse Healthcare (MHC), the clinical services arm of Morehouse School of Medicine, today announced the “soft launch” of Phase One of its new Morehouse Healthcare at East Point clinic in partnership with Fulton County and Atrium Health, a part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the country. Located in the BuggyWorks complex at 1513 East Cleveland Ave., Building 500, East Point, Georgia, the new clinic will help to mitigate the critical lack of healthcare resources in the area.
“As Morehouse School of Medicine continues to lead the creation and advancement of health equity to achieve health justice, we are committed to providing compassionate care, and innovative medicine to the residents of south Fulton County,” said Morehouse School of Medicine President and CEO Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG. “We are pleased to join our partners, Fulton County and Atrium Health, to help restore healthcare resources and expand primary care choices in this area. We see this as a significant first step to meet the healthcare needs of local residents and we will continue to seek out opportunities to increase access to quality health care throughout south Fulton County.”
Earlier this year, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved a contract for Morehouse School of Medicine to establish the clinic. The medical school presented research to the board that showed the area was a “healthcare desert” with, for example, no medical specialists in cardiology, pulmonology and infectious diseases for the area’s 240,000 residents.
“Nothing is more important than the health and wellbeing of Fulton County residents,” said Chairman Robb Pitts. “Our community is facing a crisis in health access. This partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine and the opening of the new primary care clinic is an important step to getting our residents the care they…
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