Samford, St. Vincent’s Dedicate New Campus Clinic:

On Sept. 28, Samford University and St. Vincent’s Health System dedicated the school’s new on-campus health clinic, which administrators said is a dramatic improvement from the facility it replaces.

Under the new partnership with St. Vincent’s, the facility will be staffed daily by a physician assistant and three days a week by a doctor. The clinic includes three exam rooms and a treatment room and provides basic radiology and laboratory services.

The previous clinic included just three rooms and was lightly staffed. The new facility will be a selling point with parents of prospective students and likely will provide primary care for many students and university employees, said Andrew Westmoreland, president of Samford.

St. Vincent’s CEO John O’Neil said the clinic, called St. Vincent’s at Samford, is a logical step because of the school’s long-standing relationship with the health system. The system’s hospitals employ many nurses who graduated from Samford, which also has a leading pharmacy school.