About the Organization
MedLink Vision: Healthy individuals. Healthy families Healthy communities. .
MedLink Mission: To partner with patients and communities to support wellness through compassionate, quality healthcare.
We are a non-profit community health center network providing high quality, affordable and comprehensive primary and preventative medical, dental, and mental healthcare with 26 practice sites in northeast Georgia.
Our Physicians, Mid-Level Providers, Pharmacists, Podiatrists, Optometrists, and Dentists work at their site, on multiyear contracts with guaranteed income achievable bonus plans and excellent benefits.
About the Community
Our Story
We are here to help you! At MedLink Georgia, we strive to provide comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care to all our patients. We offer a broad array of primary and preventive care services for patients of all ages, including screening, diagnosis, and management of chronic illnesses.
In addition to primary care, we also offer pediatrics, behavioral health, diabetes, and nutrition education, womens health, medication-assisted treatment, general dentistry and pharmacy services. All our centers are fully staffed year-round and offer extended hours. Each community has unique needs, so a center may offer specific services based on identified needs and available resources. MedLink Georgia, Inc. is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
We have proudly been serving northeast Georgia since 1976. As a federally qualified health center, we are able to offer uninsured and underinsured patients a sliding fee scale. No one is denied services due to lack of income or insurance status. Many of our employees are bi-lingual, eliminating the language barrier and providing a more comfortable and welcoming environment for all cultures.
History
MedLink Georgia, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (C) (3) corporation, originally established as the Oconee- Oglethorpe Primary Health Care Center in 1979 under the Rural Health Initiative Program. The corporation is governed by a Board of Directors that is representative of the organizations service area. Day-to-day operations are managed by a Chief Executive Officer and administrative staff from the corporate headquarters in Colbert, Georgia.
The corporation became a supported (USPHS Section 33O) Primary Health Care Center in 1979 and uses this support to increase access to medical care for patients in northeast Georgia.
MedLink Georgia, Inc. is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 2546, and a deemed Public Health Service employee site under 2 u. 5. C. 233 (B) (n). Medlink Georgia is covered under the Federal Tort Claims Act.