Southside Medical Center opens urgent care facility in East Point, GA

Southside Medical Center, an East Point urgent care center, celebrated its grand opening and ribbon-cutting Friday morning.  Southside Medical Center is more than just 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, and 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 exact location.   Dr. David Williams, president and CEO 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 that 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...