Clinic run by nurses opens at Augusta University
Augusta University President Brooks Keel walked past the ribbon and up to College of Nursing Dean Lucy Marion.
“You’ve been looking forward to this for a few days?” he said jokingly. “A few decades?”
Try 15 years. But on Friday, Keel, Marion and others cut the ribbon on the school’s Nurse-Managed Health Center, a dream Marion has had since she became dean in 2004.
“It took Dean Marion’s vision and aggressiveness, of staying on top of things, pushing this and making the best case on this,” Keel said.
The clinic will offer not only primary care but also advanced nursing care, working with partners at the hospital and clinics and specialists there, said Assistant Dean J. Dwayne Hooks Jr., who helped plan it over the past two years.
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