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 to offer AngioScreenings to the community

• AdventHealth Redmond Sports Med and Rehab hosts kickball event for Parkinson's Awareness Month

• AdventHealth Redmond to offer $30 mammograms in May

• AdventHealth opens new cardiology office in Cedartown

• AdventHealth Redmond to host AngioScreen bus

 

Archbold

• Archbold names Newberry Employee of the Year

• Archbold opens new Mother/Baby Unit in maternity center

• Archbold welcomes new oncologist Higbee

• Archbold welcomes new Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Luis Wulff, MD

• Archbold Auxiliary gives to Archbold Foundation

• Archbold welcomes Nurse Practitioner Bennett

• Archbold welcomes Provider Merriman

• Archbold asking for input for Community Health Needs Assessment

 

Atrium Health

• Atrium Health Navicent: Time matters when you’re having a stroke
• Atrium Health Floyd: Ishani Desai’s Path to Medical School Started with Volunteering
• Atrium Health Navicent recognized for promoting organ donation registration
• Advocate Health announces division president for North Carolina and Georgia
• Atrium Health Navicent's Mobile Mammography Coach takes cancer screenings to women in central and south Georgia
• Atrium Health Navicent Healthy Communities to offer health screeenings
• Community plants pinwheel garden in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month

 

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 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: 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

• Galileo and Emory Healthcare collaborate to expand access to primary care, enhancing specialty care options in Georgia
• AI Showcase highlights work of faculty, staff and students across Emory
• Emory Hillandale’s Violence Prevention Program experiences growth and impact after first year
• Emory University Hospital Midtown achieves first Magnet designation for nursing excellence
• Emory Healthcare launches virtual nursing initiative using AI-driven technology to enhance patient care
• Emory Healthcare launches Wellness Walkers initiative at Northlake Mall

 

Effingham Health System

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

 

Houston Healthcare

• Houston Healthcare – Warner Robins Recognized for Excellence with ACC Cardiac Cath Lab Accreditation with PCI
• Quinton Head, Houston Healthcare EMS supervisor, wins statewide Hospital Hero Award
• 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 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

 

Monroe County Hospital

• Casey Fleckenstein named Hospital Administrator of MCH
   

Morgan Medical Center

• Morgan Medical Center to host community health fair on May 17

• 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

• Lifesaving blood transfusion program celebrated five years and more than 200 critically injured patients helped

• NGHS now among few providers offering new treatment options for liver cancer

• Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville recognized for 25 years of high-quality echocardiography

• NGMC Gainesville adds four new surgical robots

• Antonio Rios, MD, receives Georgia Hospital Association's Physician Hero Award

• Lynne Cox named NGHS’ employee of the year

• Georgia Heart Institute welcomes Habersham native to care for people in Demorest

• Barrow emergency medical services and NGHS receive state award for trauma car

• NGMC Gainesville opens an epilepsy monitoring unit

 

Northside Hospital

• 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

• Students get hands-on experience

• Northside honors DAISY, BEE award winners

• Northside expands cardiac PET/CT scanning services

 

Optim Health System

• 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 hosts 2025 Trauma Skills Symposium to bridge rural care gapsPhoebe celebrates Nurses Week with 2025 DAISY Awards recognition

• Phoebe nurses called ‘God’s hands and feet on Earth’ as they are awarded DAISY Award

• Phoebe and SOWEGANS Soccer Club announce new partnership

• Phoebe celebrates renovations and expansions at Phoebe East

Putnam General Hospital

• Putnam General Hospital Welcomes Dr. Dan Bennett as Director of Emergency Medicine Services Eatonton, Ga
• Putnam General Hospital Launches Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program Eatonton, GA

 

SGMC Health

• SGMC Health performs its first endoscopic spine surgery

• SGMC Health receives Georgia HEART Impact Award for transformative Berrien expansion project

• SGMC Health welcomes Clements as director of human resources

• SGMC Health Foundation receives generous gift in memory of Josephine Hutchinson to support bereaved families

• SGMC Health recognizes Young with DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing

• SGMC Health launches onsite virtual nursing

• SGMC Health unveils FY2024 Annual Report highlighting $1 billion economic impact and strategic growth

• SGMC Health to host annual stroke seminar

• SGMC Health celebrates ribbon cutting of second urgent care location in Valdosta

 

Southeast Georgia Health System

• Student Athletic Trainer Camp offered to high school students interested in sports medicine careersSoutheast Georgia Health System to host Sports Medicine Symposium

• Tift Regional Medical Center Foundation donates AED to Tifton Fire Department

• Southeast Georgia Health System celebrates National Doctors’ Day with charitable donations

• A life-changing experience awaits volunteers

• Southeast Georgia Health System urges community to support life by registering as organ donors

 

Southwell

• Tift Regional Medical Center is one of 339 U.S. hospitals and one of eight Georgia hospitals with a CLABSI infection rate of zero

• Tift Regional Medical Center awarded sixth straight “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group

• Southwell nurses among those serving in Georgia Nurse Honor Guard recognized by Governor Kemp

• Tift Regional Medical Center awarded sixth straight “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group

• TRMC Foundation donates 12-Lead EKG Monitor to Wilcox EMS

• Southwell presents Excellence in Leadership Award to Jana Roberson

• Renovation begins at Southwell Medical Nashville Primary Care

• 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 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

• 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 System

• 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​

• 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 Maggie Maguire, NP with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
• Kids Alliance for Better Care celebrates Upson Regional Medical Center’s emergency department as part of the Pediatric Emergency Care Project
• Dr. Moga named chief of Upson OB/GYN
• URMC recognizes Kalyn Evans, RN with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
• URMC breaks ground on $40 million expansion

 

Vitruvian Health

• Associates receive Heart of Hamilton Awards for exceptional acts 

• Hamilton Medical Center celebrates Volunteer Week

• Hamilton Home Health earns 5-star rating

• Vitruvian Health: Paynter retires after 36 years

• Peeples Cancer Institute introduces massage therapy

• 104-year-old Regency Park patient showed ‘incredible determination’ in recovery

• Whitfield Commons gets beautification grant

• Hamilton to hold women’s event

• Anna Shaw Children’s Institute plans Easter Egg-Stravaganza

Wayne Memorial Hospital

• 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

• 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

• Wellstar MCG Health achieves medical first: Procedure offers hope for aneurysm patients

• Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center renews accreditation for rectal cancer program

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

• Wellstar accelerates training next generation of caregivers