New Health Center brings GSU into 2016

Expansion allows better service to larger student population

Compliance officer Kim Packer, left, gives Aaron Blaine a tour of the x-ray facilities at the new $8.5 million, 39,000 square foot campus health center at Georgia Southern University Friday. The facility includes 36 exam rooms, a women's health unit, a pharmacy, laboratory, and immunization facilities. It also houses the Eagle Eye CDare Center, education, resources and a physical therapy area.

W 010816 GSU HEALTH CENTER 01 — Compliance officer Kim Packer, left, gives Aaron Blaine a tour of the x-ray facilities at the new $8.5 million, 39,000 square foot campus health center at Georgia Southern University Friday. The facility includes 36 exam rooms, a women's health unit, a pharmacy, laboratory, and immunization facilities. It also houses the Eagle Eye CDare Center, education, resources and a physical therapy area.

After 38 years in a health center built to handle a student population of about 5,000, Georgia Southern unveiled its new Health Center Friday, a 2016 version that’s modern and large enough for the university’s 20,500 students. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday for its new campus location across from the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center and offered the public tours of the 39,000-square-foot facility. Georgia Southern students will begin utilizing services in the new location when the spring semester begins Monday.

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