Southside Medical Center hosted ribbon cutting celebration, open house 

An East Point urgent care center, Southside Medical Center, celebrated its grand opening and ribbon-cutting Friday morning.& Southside Medical Center is not simply an urgent care facility. They offer residents in East Point and surrounding communities continued access to quality, convenient urgent care in addition to an array of services such as primary care, women’s health, pediatric, dental, mental health services, discounted pharmaceuticals, and many others.& Also, Southside Medical has a new X-ray machine, exam rooms, and a procedure room to take in urgent care visitors after receiving $5 million from Wellstar. The money and renovations came after Wellstar decided to close its urgent care operations at Atlanta Medical Center South, a year after it closed the hospital at the same location.& & Dr. David Williams, president, and CEP of Southside Medical Center said the clinic should allow urgent care patients to see primary care doctors for preventative care if their need is not an emergency.& & In honor of Black History Month, Williams said just as Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, so did the founders of Southside Medical Center, almost 60 years ago.& & “They had a dream to provide excellent health care in the South Side...