1516 Health Services

The GSU Clinic can meet all of your primary care and urgent health care needs on campus. The staff includes physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and medical assistants. The clinic is located in 141 Piedmont Ave, Ste. D, and office hours are 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Monday –Thursday and 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fridays with the last appointment 30 minutes prior to closing. During Spring Break and summer, the clinic hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Appointments are required for visits, but urgent visits may walk in and be seen on a priority basis.

You must be a currently registered student to receive services. Always bring your Panther Card and picture identification. We file Georgia State student insurance, but other insurance plans are not accepted. Payment is expected at the time of service by cash, check, credit, or debit card. The clinic cannot take over the phone payments. Please call 404/413-1930 for an appointment or other information, or visit the website at www.gsu.edu/health.

• Primary Care: Visits and medical advice are FREE — fees are charged for tests, supplies, and medicines. Primary care includes diagnosis and treatment of common illnesses and chronic medical problems, wellness visits, annual physicals, STD checks and treatments.
• Minor Emergency: Wound care including stitches, asthma care, first aid, and assessments and referrals are provided. The Clinic does NOT treat serious, life-threatening or limb-threatening illnesses or injuries. In case of a true emergency on campus, please call 911 for an ambulance, and then call the university police at 3-3333. The police can direct the ambulance to the location of the emergency. The university police can also assist if someone has a minor emergency while on campus and cannot get to the clinic without assistance. Clinic personnel cannot leave the clinic to attend to minor emergencies that occur at other campus locations, so please call the campus police to help bring the patient to the clinic.
• Sports Medicine: Sports participation physicals are provided free. Minor injury care is provided through our Orthopaedic clinic, which is held on Thursdays from 9 am to 12 pm. You must call for appointment.
• Women's Health: Please schedule appointments for gynecological exams, PAP smears and birth control advice. Contraceptive pills and shots along with emergency contraception and pregnancy tests are available and can be provided for a fee. Prenatal care is not provided.
• Health Education: A variety of topics are offered such as safe sex information, weight control advice, healthy lifestyles, and diabetes management.
• Prescriptions Dispensed: As part of your visit to the clinic, the doctor can dispense pre-packaged prescription medicines at a discounted price — antibiotics, allergy and cold medicines, ear and eye drops, birth control pills, dermatological creams, and more. Outside prescriptions cannot be filled at the clinic. Students with the Georgia State student insurance may receive medications without a co-payment. Otherwise there is a co-pay for labs and procedures.
• Immunizations: All shots and laboratory tests (titers) needed to complete the immunization requirement for registration (Board of Regents policy) are available at the GSU Clinic through the immunization department. Please call 404/314-1940 for information. Vaccinations and tests provided by the immunization department are MMR, Rubella, Meningitis, Hepatitis A and B, Tetanus/Diphtheria, Varicella (chickenpox), and PPD (tuberculosis) skin tests. Allergy shots can be given only after a consultation visit with the clinic doctor, along with a previous diagnosis and prescription of serum from an allergy specialist.
• Laboratory Tests: Affordable testing is available at deeply discounted prices. A few examples are urinalysis, urine culture, throat culture, thyroid panel, lipids (cholesterol) panel, gonorrhea-chlamydia , HIV blood test, and pregnancy tests. You must have an office visit with the doctor or nurse practitioner before a laboratory test can be ordered.