Services

The Primary Care clinic serves students who have a wide variety of concerns, from acute illness to chronic ongoing health issues to wellness and prevention.  The providers in the Primary Care clinic are board certified physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

Services include but are not limited to:

• Physicals
• Respiratory Therapy
• Gastrointestinal complaints
• Infections disease management
• IV therapy
• Dermatology
• Minor surgical procedures
• Disease management (i.e. hypertension, diabetes, etc.)
• STD testing and treatment
• Musculoskeletal issues
• Evaluation and treatment of mental health disorders
• Metabolic and endocrine disorders
• Neurological disorders
• Laceration repairs
• Minor Burns
• Sprains
• Minor Fractures
• Infections
• Rashes
• Bites
• ADD/ADHD Management
  • Please submit your medical records and completed ADD/ADHD consent form prior to your first visit. Our providers will review your records and determine if we are able to take over management of your care.
  • Submit the ADD/ADHD consent form with supporting documentation prior to your first appointment.
• International travel preparation

The Women’s Health Clinic is staffed by caring and qualified nurse practitioners and nurses. Patients are seen primarily by appointment and are encouraged to make appointments for annual examinations at least two weeks in advance.

Procedures performed at the Women’s Health Clinic:

• Annual Exams
• Pap Smears
• Contraceptive Management
• Pregnancy Testing
• IUD Insertion and Removal
• Nexplanon Insertion and Removal
• Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing (STI Testing)
• Depo-Provera Injections
• Other Gynecological concern

Appointment Scheduling

Annual Exam / Birth Control Visit

Insurance plans will allow one annual exam per year. If you are having any issues between annual exams, please schedule a “problem” or acute visit. Acute visit appointment slots open 24 hours before Tuesday through Friday appointments and 48 hours before Monday appointments.

If you need help scheduling your appointment, please call the Women’s Health Clinic at (912) 478-0110 or 478-0417.

Problem Visit

Please do not use vaginal products for at least 24 hours before your visit. These products interfere with many of the tests that are commonly needed during an acute visit in the Women’s Health Clinic.

We cannot perform some tests while you are on your menstrual cycle. A urine test for infection or pregnancy can be performed in the presence of blood, but most others cannot. Should you need those tests, we may need to reschedule your visit.

Allergy Shots

Health Services will not initiate allergy immunotherapy injections. You must have already received your first injection of the serum from your allergist. Health Services will only administer the subsequent injections as ordered by your allergist.  

Health Services will provide allergy injections to currently enrolled students. Georgia Southern faculty and staff may receive allergy injections at Health Services after payment of a semester fee for this particular service.

As a patient of the Allergy and Immunization Injection Office, you have the responsibility to be knowledgeable about and to follow the guidelines we have established for that office. Students, faculty, and staff are required to abide by these guidelines and failure to do so will result in termination of allergy injection services provided by Health Services. Please remember, these guidelines are for your protection. For more information regarding the Allergy Immunotherapy Guidelines please click here.

Allergy Injection Clinic Hours of Operation

• Monday – Friday, 9:00AM-3:30PM

All appointments are scheduled online. You are required to wait 15-30 minutes or more following your injection to be monitored for any adverse reaction.

Tuberculosis (TB) Testing

TB testing is available on both the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses.

Please call Health Services at (912) 478-5641 to schedule an appointment.

Immunizations and Travel

Health Services will provide the following immunizations to currently enrolled students:

• COVID-19
• Hepatitis A
• MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
• Hepatitis B
• Pneumonia
• Influenza
• Meningitis
• Tdap (Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis)
• Varicella (Chickenpox)
• HPV
• Rabies

Other Injections

Health Services will provide the following other injections to currently enrolled students:

• B12
• Testosterone
• Depo-Provera
• Xolair: For guidelines and important requirements for Xolair injections, click here.

Travel Evaluation

Health Services will work with patients to identify required immunizations for travel and will provide additional referral and evaluation as needed.

Injection Clinic Hours of Operation

• Monday – Friday, 9:00AM-3:30PM

All appointments are scheduled online. You are required to wait 15-30 minutes or more following your injection to be monitored for any adverse reaction.

This clinic has been set up for students who just want to have lab testing done to check for sexually transmitted infections (HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis). You will be seen by a nurse only for this visit. If you currently have any symptoms that could be related to a sexually transmitted infection or if your partner has tested positive for such an infection, you must schedule an appointment with your general medical team or with the women’s health clinic. We will file these labs to you insurance plan or you may pay self-pay rates ($5- $15 per lab).

This appointment is for lab testing only for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or trichomoniasis to verify your status, or for Test of Cure or 3 month re-screening after treatment for an STI. We now include the option for oral and rectal gonorrhea and chlamydia screening at this visit. Screening asymptomatic persons for Herpes and Human Papilloma virus is not provided at this visit. If you currently have any symptoms that could be related to a sexually transmitted infection or if your partner has recently tested positive for such an infection and you were not treated for that, you must schedule an appointment with your a general medical team or with the women’s health clinic. Treatment is not provided at this visit. If a test from this visit is positive, you will be scheduled to follow up with a provider here for further evaluation and treatment. You should not urinate within one hour of this appointment–if you have urinated within one hour of this appointment you may be asked to reschedule.

Please click here for additional information regarding our Psychiatry Clinic.

Please click here for additional information regarding our Physical Therapy Clinic.

Statesboro

Health Services provides an on-site medical laboratory to provide timely, accurate laboratory procedures in support of clinical evaluation and diagnosis. The lab is a moderate complexity CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act) approved lab.

Procedures performed by Health Services:

• Medical Laboratory (CBC, Diff, Sed Rate)
• Chemistry (glucose)
• Influenza, Mono, Strep, and COVID-19
• Urinalysis (UA-dipstick, UA-microscopic, Pregnancy)
• Microbiology (KOH, Saline)
• Venipuncture specimen collection

Health Service utilizes Labcorp as its reference medical laboratory for certain tests that cannot be performed by our Medical Lab.

Lab tests that are ordered by Health Services and sent to Labcorp will incur an additional fee.  In addition, some labs may require an order to be done at another outside lab facility.

Health Services does not draw/perform/send out laboratory tests ordered by outside medical providers not associated with Georgia Southern University Student Health Services.  Any persons requiring lab tests ordered by an outside medical provider will need to have those drawn/performed/sent by an outside lab facility.

Health Services provides the QuantiFERON^TM blood test to screen for Tuberculosis.

Armstrong

Health Services on the Armstrong campus offers point-of-care testing, including influenza, mono, strep, COVID-19, and UA dipstick. We also offer the PPD tuberculin skin testing.

Health Service utilizes Labcorp as its reference medical laboratory for certain tests that cannot be performed on-site. Lab tests that are ordered by Health Services and sent to Labcorp will incur an additional fee.

Health Services provides on-site Radiology Services utilizing a state of the art computed radiography system. The imaging services aids in the diagnoses, assessment and treatment of disease or injury including fracture or foreign body of the skull, spine, chest, abdomen and extremities.

Same day radiology reports are provided through a partnership with the East Georgia Radiology Group, which is based out of Statesboro, Georgia, in affiliation with East Georgia Regional Medical Center. The X-ray images are sent directly to The East Georgia Radiology Group via the Radiology Information System over a secure network to ensure privacy and convenience for the patient.

Please click here for additional information regarding our Pharmacy.

Telehealth meetings are reserved for specific appointment reasons, including (but not limited to):

• Gastrointestinal symptoms, like nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
• Respiratory symptoms, like coughing, sneezing, or runny nose
• Headaches, including migraine (new onset, not ongoing)
• Mood issues