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Medical help now available on Saturday
Erin Boyd
Pilot staff
Three hours in a hospital emer
gency room is not how freshman Nicole
Wilkening imagined spending one of
her first Saturdays at college. With a
sore throat, aching head and limited
choice of medical facilities, Wilkening
visited Cleveland Regional Medical
Center in Shelby.
“Both my RA and I called around to
different places, but no one was open,
so I had to go to the emergency room,”
said Wilkening.
Fortunately for students like
Wilkening, Gardner-Webb has recently
been working to provide a place where
students can get medical attention on
Saturdays, when most doctor’s offices
are closed.
Under the leadership of Residence
Life, the University has come under an
agreement with CLECO Family
Practice in Shelby.
CLECO, which stands for
Cleveland County, is a medical service
combining the forces of several local
doctor’s offices. Four medical
providers and five nurses work on a
rotation basis at the facility.
“CLECO provides students with an
option to get non-emergency medical
attention on the weekends,” said Dean
and Director of Residence, Life Doug
Searcy.
CLECO is opened to walk-ins 8-
9:30 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. Monday-
Friday. Saturday appointments are
available for sick patients only.
“Their policy had indicated to us
that students should call in advance.
Based on CLECO’s availability, they
will provide an appointment for you,”
said Searcy.
As it does with the nearby Boiling
Springs Medical Associates, Gardner-
Webb will pay the first $ 15 of any full
time, residential student’s CLECO bill.
The student pays the bill’s balance.
Searcy states that Boiling Springs
Medical Associates, located at 305 W.
College Avenue, near the University
Commons Apartments, will remain
Gardner-Webb’s main medical
Local options for medical help
CLECO Family Practice
101 Grover Street (Shelby)
704-480-9344
8-9:30 Monday-Friday, Sat. by appointment
Services: non-emergency, routine treatments
Costs are the same as BSMA
Carolina Family Care
yil-K West College Avenue,
beside Crawley Memorial Hospital
704-434-0101
2-5:30 Wednesday and Friday
Services: physicals, cancer screenings, diagnos
tic procedures, cardiac testing, OBGYN, etc.
Costs vary according to procedure.
Most insurances accepted
Cleveland Regional Medical Center
201 E. Grover St. (Shelby)
704-487-3000
24 hrs a day, 7 days a week
Services: all emergencies
Costs vary depending on procedure. Most
insurances accepted.
Boiling Springs Women’s Care
327-B W. College Ave., beside Carolina
Family Care
704-487-5268
8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Mon.,Wed. & Fri.
8:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.Thursday
Services: all OBGYN care
Costs vary depending on procedure. Most
insurances accepted.
provider.
Despite the proximity of Boiling
Springs Medical Associates (BSMA) to
the Gardner-Webb campus, some stu
dents still feel there should be an on-
campus infirmary.
“Every other college that I know of
has one [an infirmary] except for
Gardner-Webb,” said junior Scott Ryan.
“I don’t understand why we aren’t
meeting the standard that other schools
are setting. I think we need to raise the
standard,” he said.
Searcy explains that Gardner-Webb
does not have an on-campus infirmary
because of the medical options already
available to students in the Boiling
Springs area.
“We have many options available
to us,” said Searcy. “Boiling Springs
Medical Associates benefits the insti
tute, offers low costs to students, is in a
convenient location and administers
good medical attention,” he said.
Along with CLECO and Boiling
Springs Medical Associates, students
can receive medical attention at several
other area locations. However, under
GWU's current student medical policy,
the university will only cover the first
$15 at BSMA or CLECO.
Library adds new technology for students
Leigh Harris
Pilot saff
Over the summer, a num
ber of new services were added
to the library to offer more con
venience to students. A patron
self-renewal, a search of course
reserves, an Encyclopedia
Britannica (EB) online refer
ence tool and netLibrary (the
newest addition to NC Live)
were among the additions.
Patrons can reach any of
these services by going to
WWW. library. gardner-webb. edu
or by visiting the Gardner-
Webb home page and clicking
on the library link.
Students are now able to
renew books online from home
by accessing the library’s main
page. If patrons are successful in
renewing an item, the new due
date of the item will be present
ed on the screen. If unsucessful,
the reason for denial will be dis
played on the screen. Students
can renew a circulating item
only once and it cannot be
renewed if it is overdue.
Patrons can also search for
books that professors have put on
reserve. This can be done by
either the class name or the pro
fessor’s name. Students can view
all of the items on reserve for the
class and can determine if a spe
cific item is presently in use.
Also, if a student forgets
the title of a book, he or she can
look it up on the online cata
logue by accessing the course
reserve records for that class.
Another addition is an
online edition of Encyclopedia
Britannica that students can
access from on or off-campus.
At EB online, students can get
a variety of reference sources
beyond the encyclopedia itself.
There are links to 130,000 web
sites from the encyclopedia that
you can access by just clicking
on the hyperlink.
Also, students can benefit
from the Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary that is
available on the site as well.
The newest supplement to
NC LIVE is netLibrary.
NetLibrary permits users to
check out online books for two
hours at a time. In order to use
its services, a student must set
up a personal account.
The library staff is also try
ing to add netLibrary’s contents
to the library catalogue so stu
dents can go directly from the
catalogue to the electronic book
at netLibrary. Students can also
limit their searches to
netLibrary’s electronic titles
only.
The library has also added
a couple of new staff members
to help patrons. Mary Roby is
the new associate director for
the library. Sherry Tsiugham is
now the weekend circulation
assistant. The library is now
conducting a search for a refer
ence librarian.
Valerie Perry, director of
the library, said, “I’m pleased
with the new things we were
able to imlement into the
library. This is always an excit
ing time of year.”
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