Combest Center Opens New Clinic
WHAT: The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Anita Thigpen PerrySchool of Nursing Larry Combest Community Health & Wellness Center will officially open its newest clinical site at Lubbock Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation Center (MHMR) Sunrise Canyon.
WHEN: 2:30 Thursday (Sept. 22)
WHERE: Sunrise Canyon, 1950 Aspen Ave.
EVENT: Sunrise Canyon Hospital is a psychiatric facility for short-term crisis stabilization. The newly-renovated, 30-bed hospital is an adult inpatient treatment facility that provides psychiatric evaluation, rehabilitation services and comprehensive discharge planning for people with mental illness and/or a serious psychiatric crisis.
The Combest Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center serving Lubbock and surrounding areas. The nurse-managed center specializes in primary care and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, hypertension and obesity for all ages.
For more information, call Linda McMurray, R.N., DNP, executive director of the Combest
Center, at (806) 743-9355 or email linda.mcmurray@ttuhsc.edu.
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