Dr. David Williams shows off the reconstructed basement of the Southside Clinic location on Cleveland Avenue.
The facility has a new X-ray machine, exam rooms, and a procedure room to take in urgent care visitors after receiving $5 million from Wellstar.
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The money and renovations came after Wellstar decided to close its urgent care operations at Atlanta Medical Center South, a year after it closed down the hospital at that same location.
“We’re offering urgent care combined with primary care and dental services and a pharmacy,” Dr. Williams said. “We call that giving them a medical home.”
The clinic has an urgent care on the bottom floor and primary care just above it.
Dr. Williams says it should allow urgent care patients to see primary care doctors for preventative care if their need is not an emergency.
However, there is one gap the clinic does not fill.
“Right now, we don’t have emergency care. You would have to go to Grady, piedmont, or Emory,” Dr. Williams said.