NIU’s gynecology clinic might be without a home again and the university is still unable to house it.

Gynecology’s current home at the DeKalb Clinic, 217 Franklin St., will be filled by an orthopedic surgeon, which will force gynecology to leave in mid-August.

NIU has no space for gynecology and the only other alternative is a tentative offer from the DeKalb Clinic, said Rosemary Lane, University Health Services director.

“NIU is in no position (to offer space),” Lane said. “The DeKalb Clinic is the only viable option,” she said.

The clinic offered space in a building it plans to use for physical therapy, but the area needs construction, she said. However, this alternative is not definite because no contracts have been signed.

“We are terribly worried,” Lane said. If Gynecology is unable to move into the clinic’s space, “I will cry on the shoulders of the university,” she said.

“I don’t know where they would go,” said Judd Baker, director of the Holmes Student Center.

NIU gynecology moved into the DeKalb Clinic when asbestos levels at the University Health Service building pushed the majority of health services into the student center in the fall of 1990.

“The clinic people have been very gracious and we have had a very amicable relationship with them,” Lane said.

Steve Jennetton, the DeKalb Clinic administrator in charge of NIU gynecology, was unavailable for comment.

Since the move to the DeKalb Clinic, use of NIU gynecology services has decreased 10 percent, said Bev Beetham, NIU health services assistant director.

Space in the clinic also limited the number of clinicians working in gynecology from four to three, Beetham said, adding that occasionally four clinicians are able to work at the clinic.

The move back into the health services building, originally scheduled to be spring 1991, was delayed until the fall of 1992.