World-Class AIDS Care in the Big Gray Building on Ponce

How many times have you driven past the mammoth building that sits between Ponce de Leon Avenue and North Avenue in Midtown across the street from the Krispy Kreme and wondered just what goes on in there?

Some know that the Ponce de Leon Center is one of the largest, most comprehensive facilities dedicated to the treatment of advanced HIV/AIDS in the United States.

Some know that the Ponce de Leon Center, which was founded in 1986, serves about 5,000 patients each year.

Some know that the Ponce de Leon Center is part of the Grady Health System and that many of its doctors, nurses and specialists who provide onsite medical, support and community services are affiliated with Emory University.

But many have no idea what goes on inside the large, gray building that they may have driven past a hundred times.

If that’s you, take a few minutes to read this January Emory Health feature story from Dana Goldman on the Ponce de Leon Center, where “relationships are at the heart of clinical and research programs for people with HIV.”

In addition to the written piece, there's a great video with a patient, who was very open and available to talk, and his doctor.

The video is well worth a peek, too, to see the kind of impact on people’s lives that's happening everyday in the big, nondescript building located at 341 Ponce De Leon Ave. in Midtown.