MAHEC Health Center at Cullowhee

Welcome to MAHEC Health Center at Cullowhee

Opening May 1, 2025

We will initially offer Ob/Gyn services with plans to add behavioral health and family medicine services Summer 2025. Stay tuned for more details!

Mobile Registration Process

Our office is pleased to offer patients a convenient and secure way to virtually register for upcoming appointments. Fill out your information on your device and skip the paper forms during your visit! Just remember to check in at the front desk when you arrive.

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Telehealth Appointments

Depending on whether you join from a computer or a mobile device, you may need to download the FollowMyHealth app.

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Meet Your Provider

Dolly Pressley Byrd, CNM, PhD

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Certified Nurse Midwife

MAHEC Health Center at Cullowhee
Western Carolina University, Health & Human Sciences Building
3971 Little Savannah Road
Cullowhee, NC 28723
(828) 257-4719

Undergraduate: BA, Wake Forest University
Graduate: MSN, Yale University
Doctoral: PhD, UNC Greensboro School of Nursing

Dolly Pressley Byrd was born and raised in Western North Carolina. She returned to the area and joined MAHEC in 2005 as a Certified Nurse Midwife. Dolly loves her experience of being "with women through their lifetime"―especially fostering new and growing families. Dolly embraces the shared decision-making model and encourages her patients to be involved in the process of planning their care. In addition to prenatal appointments and attending deliveries at Mission Health Systems, she also provides well-women gynecologic, preconception counseling, and contraceptive services―specializing in IUD and Nexplanon insertions.

MAHEC Health Center at Cullowhee
Western Carolina University, Health & Human Sciences Building
3971 Little Savannah Road
Cullowhee, NC 28723

(828) 257-4719 phone
(828) 820-8329 fax