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Morehouse School of Medicine

The HEAL Clinic serving the Westside Atlanta community

Morehouse School of Medicine is committed to
its core purposes: improving the health of those who
need it most, diversifying the health care workforce,
advancing primary care and ultimately creating and
advancing health equity.
The MSM HEAL Clinic is one avenue for ser-
vice-learning, where our students, faculty, and staff
provide comprehensive, life-changing care for those
living in the Westside of Atlanta. The HEAL Clinic
has two locations, one serving the Bankhead and
English Avenue communities and the other on Howell
Mill Road.
Programs at the MSM Heal Clinic are free health
and wellness services that benefit the underserved,
homeless, and uninsured. The Clinics care for patients MSM HEAL CLINIC
from Pediatric to Geriatric. Over 300 MSM medical students have gained experience and
training at one of the two HEAL clinics that serve Westside
At the Clinics, students learn a variety of skills Atlanta. The MSM Heal Clinic is a free health and wellness pro-
such as: patient triage, physical assessment, and diag- gram that serves the underserved, homeless, and uninsured.
nosis. Additionally, students work within a health care
team, and see the realities of health disparities and populations on the Westside of Atlanta. Both clinics
learn first-hand about the challenges and rewards of offer patients several services including medical, den-
patient care and community medicine. tal, laboratory, subsidized medications, and specialty
Since its inception, more than 300 of our medical referral.
students have gained practical experience in treating By having the opportunity to identify and treat
numerous patient concerns and ailments. A group of health conditions that would have otherwise gone
dedicated physicians frequently volunteer to oversee undiagnosed in these underserved, homeless, and
medical students during our group clinics. These fac- uninsured populations, the Clinic has had a positive
ulty advisors and staff provide invaluable support to impact in reducing the dependence on urgent and
our medical students and physician volunteers. emergency care services in Westside of Atlanta area.
The HEAL Clinic exists to contribute and pro- The Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority has been a
vide health equity in the underserved and uninsured supporter of the HEAL Clinic since 2016.