GHA-member hospitals are working hard to treat patients, keep communities healthy, and provide state-of-the-art care. To have your news appear on this page, please contact Erin Stewart. Releases will be posted for a limited time. 

 

AdventHealth

• AdventHealth Redmond to host AngioScreen bus

• AdventHealth Gordon is now offering tattoo and mark-free radiation treatments

• AdventHealth Gordon Robot Day: Free and open to the community

• Richard Mersberger, DO, joins AdventHealth Medical Group Family Medicine at Health Depot

• AdventHealth Redmond: AngioScreen Bus available in Cedartown

• AdventHealth Redmond to host groundbreaking on new heart and vascular institute

 

Archbold

• Archbold asking for input for Community Health Needs Assessment

• Archbold Grady receives Donate Life Award

• Archbold Welcomes New Physician Mutti

• Archbold Radiology Wins Back-to-Back Awards

 

Atrium Health

• Atrium Health Floyd: Cherokee County celebrates opening of Women's Imaging Suite
• Atrium Health Floyd nurse’s thoughtful Christmas card touches family
• Bariatric surgery helps Rome man become more active
• Atrium Health Navicent offers high school students opportunity to learn about health careers
• Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin celebrates ribbon cutting for Milledgeville OB-GYN Clinic

 

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Atlanta Braves to host the 22nd Annual Spring Classic Baseball Game at Truist Park

 

Coffee Regional Medical Center

• Oncology support group to host “Food as Medicine” presentation on March 18
• Local teen raises over $8,200 for CRMC Cardiac Rehab Scholarship
• Coffee Regional Medical Center hosts workplace safety panel discussion
• Coffee Regional Medical Center partners with CWC Alliance to combat the opioid crisis
• Coffee Regional Medical Center welcomes healthcare leaders Donna Hyland, president and CEO of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Dr. Jean Sumner, dean of Mercer University School of Medicine

 

Colquitt Regional Medical Center

• Ameris Bank donates $500,000 to Colquitt Regional

• Wellstar and Colquitt Regional Medical Center expand training women’s health physicians

• Colquitt Regional receives prestigious Patient Safety and Quality Awards from Georgia Hospital Association

• Resident spotlight: Dr. Kevin Bhagratie

• Colquitt Regional announces plans for medical housing facility

• Colquitt Regional showcases simulation innovations at national conference

• Colquitt Regional Medical Center Achieves Top 5% Nationally for Employee Satisfaction

 

Effingham Health System

• Gears & Grub 2025 turned passion for cars into support for local healthcare

 

Emory Healthcare

• Emory Healthcare launches virtual nursing initiative using AI-driven technology to enhance patient care
• Emory Healthcare launches Wellness Walkers initiative at Northlake Mall
• King appointed chief surgical officer for the cancer service line
• MinuteClinic and Emory Healthcare Network expand primary care access to Georgians
• Emory Healthcare names Molly Biwer as chief marketing officer
• Emory Hillandale Hospital certified as Advanced Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission
• Emory Healthcare physicians use new procedure to fight fibroids and alleviate pain
• Emory Healthcare named founding partner of AMB Sports and Entertainment, Atlanta United team health care provider
• Next steps in place for Houston Healthcare to join Emory Healthcare 

 

Houston Healthcare

• Houston Healthcare – Perry reported zero hospital-associated infections during 2024
• Houston Healthcare - Perry earns ACR accreditation in breast ultrasound
• Houston Healthcare earns ACR accreditation for new MRI machine
• Next steps in place for Houston Healthcare to join Emory Healthcare

 

Memorial Health

• Memorial Health and Coastal Community Health to create new healthcare center for underserved in Savannah

 

Monroe County Hospital

• Casey Fleckenstein named Hospital Administrator of MCH
   

Morgan Medical Center

• Morgan Medical Center receives patient safety and quality award from Georgia Hospital Association

 

Mountain Lakes Medical Center

• Mountain Lakes Medical Center welcomes Mercer medical student for rural clerkship experience
• Dr. Erica McVey Joins Mountain Lakes Medical Center as Audiologist

 

Northeast Georgia Health System

• Northeast Georgia Medical Center increases number of resident physicians

• Northeast Georgia Health System's new blood transfusion program saving lives before patients reach the hospital

• Northeast Georgia Health System recognized for excellence in critical care nursin

• Georgia Heart Institute welcomes Cardiologist Rana Zouveenoor Tariq, MD, to Braselton and Bethlehem

 

Northside Hospital

• Northside adds providers across multiple specialties

• Next chief residents chosen

• Medical telemetry unit honored for ‘exemplary’ practice

• Northside unveils new advanced heart surgery technique

• Empowering women to prioritize heart health

• Mammograms at Northside now include free risk screening

 

Optim Health System

• Optim Health System announces Brian G. Evans, MBA, FACHE, as system chief operating officer
• Optim Medical Center-Screven wins statewide patient safety award

 

Phoebe Putney Health System

• Samuel Mercer: A legacy of care at Phoebe Sumter

• Phoebe continues to expand trauma team one year after earning trauma Center designation

• Phoebe Putney Health System expands telehealth services to improve access to care

• Phoebe Sumter supports local nonprofit that is saving lives

• Phoebe receives $2M grant from Richard King Mellon Foundation

• Phoebe Putney Health System and Morehouse School of Medicine sign historic agreement to improve community health in Southwest Georgia

 

SGMC Health

• SGMC Health Sleep Center earns AASM accreditation

• SGMC Health partners with Valdosta-Lowndes County YMCA to offer Safe Sitter babysitting course

• It’s a match: SGMC Health celebrates two classes of resident physicians on match day

• SGMC Health recognizes Smith as Health System Hero

• SGMC Health to host free screening and informational session on hand pain

• SGMC Health welcomes back its popular volunteen summer program for high school students

 

Southeast Georgia Health System

• Southeast Georgia Health System hosts April blood drives

• Southeast Georgia Health System honors Volunteers of the Quarter

• Teen volunteer summer program now available

• Southeast Georgia Health System invites residents to share health care concerns and recommendations in health needs assessment survey

• Southeast Georgia Health System launches Healthy Me support group

 

Southwell

• Southwell staff members earn Georgia Department of Education Certification

• Southwell participates in South Georgia Healthcare Summit

• Tift Regional Medical Center welcomes new sleep medicine specialist

• Southwell board members inducted into the Wall of Fame

 

St. Joseph's/Candler

• The Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph's/Candler Joins ASCO's CDK Study for Advanced Breast Cancer in Older Adults

 

St. Mary's Health Care System

• Daishany Rakestraw receives St. Mary’s DAISY Award for excellence

• St. Mary’s Family Medicine moving to Malcom Bridge location

• Intuitive Surgical brings robotics exhibit to St. Mary’s Hospital

• St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital hosts Wellness Walk and 5K

• Traveling exhibit introduces leading edge lung biopsy robot to region

• Dr. Amanda Bortle Thomason joins Sacred Heart Primary Care

• Record-breaking Heart and Soul Gala raises over $800,000 for Good Samaritan Hospital

 

Tanner Health System

• Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica honored for excellence in specialty care by Healthgrades

• Tanner Health Welcomes New Dean for School of Nursing at UWG

• Ann Marie Frederick, MD, joins Willowbrooke Psychiatric Center in Carrollton

• Tanner Health First in Region to Offer Cutting-Edge da Vinci 5 Surgical Robot

 

Upson Regional Medical Center

• URMC recognizes Kalyn Evans, RN with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
• URMC breaks ground on $40 million expansion

 

Vitruvian Health

• Bradley Wellness Center personal trainers have record month in February
• Hamilton Medical Center offers advanced treatment for abnormal heart rhythms
• Peeples Cancer Institute opens clinical trials
• Hamilton Sports Medicine celebrating Athletic Training Month
• Vitruvian Health: "A colonoscopy saved my life”
• Vitruvian Heath: Hamilton nurses recognized with DAISY Team Award
• Vitruvian Health: March is a great time to focus on your colon health
• Hamilton Medical Center hosts symposium for nursing students

Wayne Memorial Hospital

• History combined with modern day tools equals innovation in wound care

 

Wellstar

• Wellstar and Colquitt Regional Medical Center expand training women’s health physicians

• Wellstar accelerates training next generation of caregivers

• John Kerndl joins Wellstar as executive vice president and chief financial officer

• Wellstar MCG Health to Exhibit Local Black Artists

• Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center Provides Hospital-Level Care in Patients’ Homes