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 Medical Group Cardiology at Cedartown welcomes Shirley Greenway, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, RNFA

• AdventHealth to offer AngioScreenings to the community

• Ashley Morgan honored with Sunflower Award for non-nursing staff

• AdventHealth to offer AngioScreenings to the community

• AdventHealth breaks ground on new cancer pavilion and expansion of cancer services in Rome

• AdventHealth announces new cancer pavilion and expansion of cancer services in Rome

• AdventHealth to offer AngioScreenings to the community

 

Archbold

• Archbold partners with the Medical College of Georgia to expand medical education and rural healthcare access

• Blount named DON at Archbold Mitchell

• Archbold earns Great Place to Work Certification^TM

• Archbold now offering new Aquablation therapy for BPH

• Archbold welcomes back Dr. Ramdial

• Archbold Living - Cairo names Addison Employee of the Year

• Archbold Medical Group names Boak Employee of the Year

• Archbold Living - Camilla names Scott Employee of the Year

• Archbold Mitchell names Williams Employee of the Year

• Archbold Virtual Care Program improves and enhances patient care

• Archbold names Newberry Employee of the Year

 

Atrium Health

• Beat the Heat: Signs of dehydration and when to use virtual primary care
• Atrium Health Floyd: Holly Marks earns DAISY Nurse Leader Award
• Atrium Health Floyd residency program celebrates graduates
• Take a Walk with a Doc in Milledgeville this month
• Atrium Health Navicent to hold community food distribution
• Atrium Health Navicent physicians encourage women to prioritize their heart health
• Summer is almost here: Avoid the burn and save your skin from cancer
• Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin, community partners dedicate life jacket loaner station
• Atrium Health Navicent: Time matters when you’re having a stroke
• Atrium Health Floyd: Ishani Desai’s Path to Medical School Started with Volunteering

 

Burke Health

• Burke Health now offering weight-bearing CT

 

Carl Vinson VAMC

• Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins visits Carl Vinson VA Medical Center

 

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

 

City of Hope Cancer Center Atlanta

• City of Hope Cancer Center Atlanta announces new chief operating officer and medical director of surgical oncology

 

Coffee Regional Medical Center

• Coffee Regional Medical Center is nationally recognized for its commitment to providing high-quality stroke care

• Coffee Regional Medical Center: Dr. Peterson returns from mission trip to Ecuador
• Coffee Regional EMS team receives life-saving airway management training through national program
• Coffee Regional Medical Center invites you to discover the latest in robotic joint replacement at "Discussions with the Doc"
• Coffee High student gives back to the emergency room that saved her life
• Coffee Regional Medical Center to host educational session on robotic joint replacement
• Coffee Regional Medical Center earns fifth straight ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group
• Coffee Regional Medical Center: Justin Peterson honored with Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award
• Oncology support group to host “Food as Medicine” presentation on March 18

 

Colquitt Regional Medical Center

• Colquitt Regional hosts statewide simulation training for Georgia health educators

• Residential spotlight: Dr. Macy Rowan

• Colquitt Regional presents 2025 healthcare scholarships and grants

• Colquitt Regional: Resident spotlight: Dr. Eric Mbua

• Colquitt Regional earns 20th “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group

• Colony Bank donates $35,000 to Colquitt Regional

• Resident spotlight: Faith Hagler, MD

• Ameris Bank donates $500,000 to Colquitt Regional

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

 

Effingham Health System

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

 

Emory Healthcare

• Emory Hospital Warner Robins: Seven doctors graduate family medicine residency program
• Emory physicians well represented in Atlanta magazine's 2025 'Top Doctors' issue
• Emory's Carlos del Rio wins statewide Hospital Hero Lifetime Achievement Award from GHA
• Emory shares development plans for Midtown property
• Iyengar joins Winship as director of survivorship services
• Emory Integrated Memory Care wins national award for nurse-designed innovation
• Joon Lee, CEO of Emory Healthcare, appointed EVP for health affairs at Emory

 

Effingham Health System

• Bank of Newington donates $200,000 to Effingham Health System through Georgia HEART and Georgia Rural Hospital Income Tax Credit

 

Grady Health System

• Emory Healthcare and Grady use settlement funds to target opioid crisis in Georgia
• Grady launches emergency medical helicopter in partnership with Air Methods

Memorial Health

• Memorial Health Meadows Hospital announces new chief executive officer
• Memorial Health earns 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades
• Memorial Health donates $15,000 to Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia
• HCA Healthcare Foundation awards $25,000 to YMCA of Coastal Georgia
• Memorial Health to build new $265 million patient care tower
• Memorial Health and Coastal Community Health to create new healthcare center for underserved in Savannah

 

Northeast Georgia Health System

• Northeast Georgia Medical Center recognized for first time as Cardiac Center of Excellence

• Dr. Katia Adams returns to Northeast Georgia Physicians Group in Dawsonville to care for a community close to her heart

• Nurse practitioner inspired by brother's cancer journey now caring for her own community

• Nurse practitioner with decades of experience joining Northeast Georgia Physicians Group in Clayton

• Hospice of NGMC recognized among the top 5% in the nation

• NGMC Gainesville's nuclear cardiology unit achieves accreditation in new Green Tower

 

Northside Hospital

• Northside Forsyth performs first spine endoscopyMeet Northside's newest providers

• Northside earns top national rating for lung cancer surgery

• Northside Leadership Award winners honored

• Northside honors DAISY, BEE award winners

• Northside announces newest providers, offices

• Northside Hospital Gwinnett/Duluth diabetes center celebrates 25 years of ADA honor

• Northside Forsyth treats first patient with new BP procedure

• Northside launches new Radiology Clinical Workforce Program

 

Optim Health System

• Optim Medical Center-Tattnall hosts Georgia Hospital Association leadership for summer tour
• Optim Health System celebrates nursing excellence across its facilities
• Mylissa Gregory, staff hospitalist at Optim Medical Center-Screven, wins Ogeechee Technical College’s 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award
• 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

• Phoebe Hospice receives national recognition

• Georgia Power Foundation supports Phoebe Hospice Services in memory of President Jimmy Carter

• Phoebe Family Medicine Residency celebrates class of 2025 and honors outstanding faculty and residents

• Phoebe welcomes new class of family medicine residents

• Veteran interventional cardiologist joins Phoebe Physicians

• PSMC honors pre-op nurse with DAISY AwardPhoebe to host "Chop It Up" Men's Health Fair to promote wellness

 

Putnam General Hospital

• Putnam General Hospital earns 2024 Platinum Safety Award
• Putnam General Hospital honors dedicated employees during Service Awards Ceremony
• Putnam General Hospital welcomes Dr. Dan Bennett as director of emergency medicine services
• Putnam General Hospital Launches Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Eatonton, GA

 

SGMC Health

• SGMC Health celebrates three years of life-saving cord blood donation

• SGMC Health announces new leadership for stroke program

• SGMC Health receives national recognition in surgical oncologySGMC Health honors nurses with Safe Care Award

• SGMC Health launches 2025 Summer Volunteen Program

• SGMC Health expands mental health services with opening of SGMC Psychiatry

• SGMC Health celebrates historic graduation of inaugural class of resident physicians

• SGMC Health awards EMS excellenc

• SGMC Health performs first procedure with Impella 5.5 device

 

Southeast Georgia Health System

• Southeast Georgia Health Systems resumes full operations of pediatric services from Coastal Community Health

• Southeast Georgia Health System announces relocation of four St. Marys practices

• Wound care teams recognized for advancing healing through compassion, innovation, and teamwork

• Southeast Georgia Health System announces provider relations and specialty care expansion

• Southeast Georgia Health System expands with new OB/GYN practice in Jesup

• Southeast Georgia Health System hosts June blood drives

 

Southwell

• Southwell launches Maternal Fetal Medicine program to support high-risk pregnancies

• Southwell welcomes medical director for anesthesia services

• Southwell Health and Rehabilitation launches paid CNA training program

• Southwell welcomes Dr. Kyle Posey

• TRMC re-designated as a Level II Emergency Cardiac Care Center

• TRMC Foundation donates $20,000 to Tiftarea YMCA

• Southwell honors the memory of long-serving opthalmologist Dr. Larry R. Moorman

• TRMC Foundation donates $50,000 to Brother Charlie's in Tifto

• Southwell welcomes new internal medicine physicians to Tifton and Valdosta

• TRMC Foundation donates $20,000 to Tiftarea House of Hope

 

St. Joseph's/Candler

• St. Joseph's/Candler celebrates the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph's Hospital
• The St. Joseph’s/Candler Black Creek Campus Opens In Ellabell
• 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

• Brianna Fouche receives St. Mary's DAISY Award for nursing excellenc

• Amber Bouchard receives St. Mary's DAISY Award for excellence

• St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital celebrates 10th anniversary

• Good Samaritan Hospital receives HEART Achiever Award

• St. Mary’s announces 2024 annual awards recipients

• Ribbon-cuttings set for new St. Mary’s Medical Group locations

• Dr. Christopher Ward named St. Mary’s chief medical officer

• St. Mary’s Foundation brings back annual golf tournament

• Sue Rowe receives St. Mary’s DAISY Award for excellence

 

Tanner Health

• Dr. Khawaja named Atlanta Magazine Top Doc for 16th consecutive year

• Tanner Primary Care of Carrollton welcomes Daniel Feckoury, MD

• Higgins General Hospital donates trauma kits to equip Haralson County Sheriff's Office to handle unexpected emergencie

• Tanner Health System - Lifelong learning: UWG begins three-year partnership with The Birches on Maple

• Tanner Health wins 2025 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Award

• Inspired to dream, compelled to heal

• Tanner hosts a community event teaching hands-only CPR

• Roxanne McMorris, MD, returns to Willowbrooke Psychiatric Center in Villa Rica​

 

Upson Regional Medical Center

• URMC nationally recognized for commitment to providing high-quality stroke care
• URMC recognizes Treena Turner, BSN, RN, with the DAISY Nurse Leader Award
• URMC recognizes Maggie Maguire, NP with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses

 

Vitruvian Health

• Fishman joins Vitruvian Health - Heart & Vascular

• Medical professionals provide sports physicals

• Hamilton nurse leader recognized with DAISY Leader Award

• Hamilton nurse receives Heart Hero award

• Hamilton inviting community to CultureFest

• Hamilton Medical Center reminding community members to B.E. F.A.S.T.

• Associates receive Heart of Hamilton Awards for exceptional acts 

 

Wayne Memorial Hospital

• Next Chapter Book and Gift Fair returns to Wayne Memorial for hospital volunteer fundraiser
• Blood drive Tuesday, May 20 at Wayne Memorial Hospital with $40 in rewards for donors
• History combined with modern day tools equals innovation in wound care

 

Wellstar

• Demolition marks a new beginning in the heart of Atlanta

• Wellstar Kennestone achieves elite national recognition in cardiothoracic surgery

• Powering progress: Key insights from Wellstar's Community Transformation Progra

• Wellstar breaks ground on new cancer-care facility in Cartersville

• Wellstar Digital Care Network helps hospitals across Georgia treat complex medical conditions while keeping patients close to home

• Wellstar partners with March of Dimes & Center for Black Women’s Wellness on mobile markets

• Art Pharmacy partners With Wellstar for innovative health and wellness program