A new multi-disciplinary Hip Fracture Program at Atrium Health Navicent is seeking to shorten hospital stays and reduce complications and readmission rates.
Launched in 2020, the program helps patients who sustain hip fractures from a variety of causes ranging from falls at ground level or from a ladder to car crashes. Injured patients, typically aged 50 and older, enter the program after a hip fracture is diagnosed in the Atrium Health Navicent Emergency Center.
Early data is showing improved patient outcomes.
“The hip fracture program’s integrated multi-disciplinary approach to caring for these patients has been shown to decrease perioperative complications, length of stay, and readmission rates,” said Dr. Daniel S Chan, an Atrium Health Navicent board certified orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in orthopaedic trauma surgery and fracture care.
In the program’s first year, patients on average experienced 28 percent shorter hospital stays, experienced 28 percent fewer complications and were readmitted 59 percent less. By shortening hospital stays, the program also provides healthcare savings.
“We’re proud to offer patients, particularly our most vulnerable seniors, with this new tool to help restore them to health as quickly and completely as possible,” said Atrium Health Navicent President and CEO Delvecchio Finley. “The Hip Fracture Program is just another way that Atrium Health Navicent is using innovative techniques to improve our community’s health and wellness, elevate hope and advance healing for all.”
For additional information about hip fractures, visit www.navicenthealth.org/otinhpg/hip-fractures.
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent, the leading provider of health care in central and south Georgia, is committed to its mission of elevating health and wellbeing through compassionate care. Providing more than 1,000 beds and offering care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region, Atrium Health Navicent provides care for health care consumers’ through an academic medical center; community, pediatric and rehabilitation hospitals; urgent care centers; physician practices; diagnostic centers; home health; hospice and palliative care; and a life plan community. Atrium Health Navicent is dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.
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Donate Life: Southeast Georgia Health System Encourages Community to Register as an Organ Donor 5:18 pmDid you know that one organ and tissue donor can save or enhance the lives of up to 75 people? More than 112,000 people in the United States await the gift of life through organ donation, and over 4,900 of those people are our friends and neighbors in Georgia. April is Donate Life Month, the month long celebration that commemorates those who have received or continue to wait for lifesaving transplants as well as the donors who save and heal lives. In participation of this national effort to increase awareness, Southeast Georgia Health System encourages all Georgians to join their state’s organ and tissue donor registry.
“Thousands of people are alive or living better lives today, thanks to an organ or tissue transplant,” says Jan Jones, R.N., BSN, director, Patient Care Services, Southeast Georgia Health System. “Without selfless organ donors, thousands of people – many who live among us – will die. During this pandemic when so many of us feel powerless, becoming a donor gives us the power to save lives.”
Residents can join Georgia’s organ and tissue donor registry in a variety of ways:
LifeLink of Georgia is a non-profit community service organization dedicated to the recovery of organs and tissues for transplantation. Visit LifeLinkFoundation.org or call 800-544-6667 with questions about organ and tissue donation.
About Southeast Georgia Health System
Southeast Georgia Health System is a not-for-profit health system comprised of two acute care hospitals, two long term care facilities, three immediate care centers, five family medicine centers and numerous employed physician practices. The Health System has multiple outpatient specialty care centers, including the only CyberKnife® M6 Program in Georgia, and a Cancer Care Center accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. The Health System is part of Coastal Community Health, a regional affiliation between Baptist Health and Southeast Georgia Health System forming a highly integrated hospital network focused on significant initiatives designed to enhance the quality and value of care provided to our contiguous communities. For more information, visit sghs.org.
“If I were Tyler Perry I’d write a movie about y’all. If I were Garth Brooks, I’d write a song.”
A grateful mother wrote those words in a Facebook post commending the work of Floyd EMT Desiree Hartmann, Floyd County Police Officer Blake Puckett and other good Samaritans who helped free her daughter from the cab of a burning pickup truck.
The crash happened March 7 around 11 p.m. Desiree had finished an extra shift at Floyd Emergency Medical Services she had volunteered to work, spent time with her family and had picked up her daughter at a skating rink. She was driving home to Calhoun when she saw headlights coming directly toward her in the wrong lane on Georgia Highway 53.
Desiree’s children screamed as she quickly maneuvered her car out of the lane to avoid being struck. The wrong-way car continued, speeding down the wrong side of the four-lane, median-divided highway. Realizing that other drivers were in danger, Desiree called 911, checked on her children, then quickly turned her car around to follow the driver.
Desiree kept dispatchers on the phone, updating them on the driver’s location as she witnessed more close-calls. With 911 still on the line, Desiree then saw the unthinkable happen. The car struck a pick-up truck, head-on, at full speed. The truck immediately erupted in flames. There was no time to wait for emergency responders. She had to help. Desiree pulled safely to the side of the road to keep her children safe, then ran to the scene with no tools or protective gear to better assess the situation.
Desiree first came to the car. The trapped driver was unresponsive, but had a strong heartbeat and was breathing. She then went to the truck. Four young people were inside. Desiree and a passerby helped the stunned truck driver to the side of the road, away from the flaming vehicles. A Certified Nurse Assistant also had stopped and took over his care. The two then returned to the truck to help the passengers inside. Together, they helped a young man from the truck, then returned and lifted a young woman out of the truck and moved her safely out of the way just as the first police officers and fire department arrived. She told an officer another passenger remained inside the burning truck.
The officer used a pocketknife to cut the seatbelt of the final passenger, who was trapped in the wreckage. He and another passerby worked together to free her, as the truck’s windshield gave way and flames began to lick the truck cab. Floyd EMS transported five patients to Floyd Medical Center that night. It was Desiree’s voice on the phone that helped 911 to know how many first responders and ambulances would be needed at the scene, and it was her work at the scene that allowed on-duty first responders to act quickly and bring order to the chaotic scene.
Desiree said she saw divine providence at work, that God orchestrated everyone being at the right place at the right time to be able to react, respond and save lives. It is a perfect example of how the 911 system works with citizen first responders, 911, Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS all working together simultaneously to save lives.
The grateful mother’s Facebook praise was effusive.
“I’ve been searching for the right words. I cannot find enough,” she wrote. “I cannot find any good enough. Y’all are rock stars, my angels, my heroes. What y’all did that night was way past job and training. The choices you made that night show the people y’all really are inside: truly caring, unselfish people, loving people.”
Atrium Health Navicent Provides COVID-19 Vaccine to Homebound Residents 12:39 pmAtrium Health Navicent is partnering with the Georgia Department of Public Health to vaccinate homebound individuals in four counties who otherwise wouldn’t have an opportunity to receive a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Nurses began visiting the homes of individuals identified by the Area Agency on Aging and Department of Public Health on Thursday, April 1.
“As a health system, Atrium Health Navicent is working to bridge barriers to vaccine access in the communities we serve, ensuring the most vulnerable among us are able to receive protection against COVID-19,” said Atrium Health Navicent President and CEO Delvecchio Finley. “By partnering to reach those in need, Atrium Health Navicent is working on the front line to slow the pandemic’s spread.”
While the Johnson & Johnson vaccine only requires one dose to be administered, nurses providing the vaccinations are skillfully working around logistics as they vaccinate individuals over a broad geographic area. Each vial of vaccine contains five doses. Once the doses are drawn up, nurses have just two hours to administer the five doses to five individuals, often in five different locations, before they expire.
“It’s a bit of a challenge, but our team has made plans to make the best use out of every single dose,” said Atrium Health Navicent Healthy Communities and Palliative Care Director Carol Babcock.
Homebound vaccinations will be provided in Baldwin, Bibb, Monroe and Peach counties over the next two weeks.
“Vaccinating Georgians is key to ending COVID-19, but for individuals who are homebound and living alone without a support system, getting a vaccine can be extremely difficult,” said Dr. Kathleen E. Toomey, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health. “We want to ensure that homebound individuals are not overlooked in the vaccination process, so this collaboration with Atrium Health Navicent demonstrates our collective ability to get the vaccine to vulnerable individuals in Georgia who need it most.”
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent, the leading provider of health care in central and south Georgia, is committed to its mission of elevating health and wellbeing through compassionate care. Providing more than 1,000 beds and offering care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region, Atrium Health Navicent provides care for health care consumers’ through an academic medical center; community, pediatric and rehabilitation hospitals; urgent care centers; physician practices; diagnostic centers; home health; hospice and palliative care; and a life plan community. Atrium Health Navicent is dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.
NORTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER COMPLETES FIRST AVM TREATMENT, ADVANCING BRAIN CARE FOR THE REGION 2:46 pm
The radiation oncology and neuroscience teams at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) recently partnered to provide the region’s first treatment for arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of abnormal blood vessels in the brain. Because of the high risk for stroke and myriad neurological conditions associated with AVM, patients have traditionally been sent elsewhere for care – but now they can get the care they need close to home.
“It takes a lot of collaboration between different specialists to treat a complex neurovascular disorder like this,” said Sung Lee, MD, NGMC’s medical director of Neurointerventional Surgery and a neurointerventional surgeon with Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG). “Being able to provide this treatment speaks to how we are continuing to advance the neuroscience capabilities in this region, so patients won’t have to travel for life-saving care.”
Using his expertise in angiography, Dr. Lee first located the tangled vessels in the patient’s brain and then helped develop a plan with Craig Baden, MD, a radiation oncologist with NGPG, for targeted radiation treatment. These radiation treatment capabilities have been available at NGMC to treat cancerous tumors for years, but – without a neurointerventional surgeon like Dr. Lee – AVM treatment wasn’t possible.
“Anytime you’re dealing with a complex problem, you need experts from multiple disciplines to come together and develop an appropriate treatment plan,” said Dr. Baden. “And for an AVM treatment, we’ve had some of the pieces in place previously, but we were missing the crucial piece of a neurointerventionalist.”
Patients oftentimes don’t know they have an AVM. Dr. Baden said it’s typically diagnosed incidentally or when a patient goes in for brain imaging due to headache, seizure or some kind of neurologic problem. When concern for AVM arises, Dr. Lee steps in to help decide the best route of treatment for the patient based on certain risk factors.
“A tumor is very easy to see on an MRI,” said Dr. Baden, who has been treating tumors with radiosurgery for years. “But when you’re talking about tiny blood vessels that are connecting improperly in the brain, the best way to see those is by putting a catheter in one of the arteries and going all the way up into the vascular system in the brain – that’s the expertise Dr. Lee brings to the table.”
Dr. Lee has already helped Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) offer new neuroscience care capabilities like mechanical thrombectomy, a critical stroke intervention procedure. With his expertise in angiography, he’s further pushing the program to new heights.
“Dr. Lee is truly an asset to this health system and this region as a whole,” said Meghan Glabach, executive director of Neurosciences at NGHS. “With his help, we’re continually expanding stroke care at NGHS. Our campuses in Barrow, Braselton and Gainesville are now all certified as Primary Stroke Centers, and we plan to continue expanding, putting NGMC on the map as a leader in neurosciences.”
To learn more about NGMC’s neurological care, visit nghs.com/neurosciences.
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Southeast Georgia Health System Offering COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccines 12:56 pmEffective March 25, 2021, Southeast Georgia Health System is offering COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines for all individuals age 16 and older at its Brunswick and Kingsland Vaccine Clinics. Pfizer is the only COVID-19 vaccine currently approved for those aged 16-18. Appointments can be scheduled online at sghs.org/covid19-vaccine.
Brunswick Campus, Linda S. Pinson Conference Center
2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick
Every Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, 4-6 p.m.
Camden Community Recreation Center
1050 Wildcat Drive, Kingsland
Every Monday and Friday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
To receive a vaccine, individuals must register online for an appointment; walk-ins are not accepted.
Those receiving the vaccine must be available for a second dose 21 days later. Individuals receiving the vaccine must provide a form of identification, and should wear a shirt that provides access to their upper arm. Masks are required when in a Health System facility. Following the vaccination, recipients will be required to remain in an observation area for 15 minutes to ensure they do not experience any adverse reaction.
Even after receiving the vaccine, it remains extremely important to continue following safety protocols. Wear a mask, social distance, wash hands frequently and avoid large gatherings. Updated vaccine information is available on the Health System’s website at sghs.org/covid-19.
About Southeast Georgia Health System
Southeast Georgia Health System is a not-for-profit health system comprised of two acute care hospitals, two long term care facilities, two comprehensive Cancer Care Centers and multiple specialty care centers, including orthopaedic and spine care, joint replacement, breast care, maternity, outpatient rehabilitation, sleep management and wound care. The Brunswick Campus Cancer Care Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and offers the only CyberKnife® M6 with MLC technology in Georgia. Additionally, the Southeast Georgia Physician Associates medical group includes more than 140 providers working in 20 different medical specialties at more than 50 locations. For more information, visit sghs.org.
Atrium Health Navicent stands ready to provide public COVID-19 vaccinations to all Georgians aged 16 and older beginning Thursday. Georgia announced plans to expand the vaccine eligibility group on Tuesday.
“Atrium Health Navicent has been steadily expanding our public vaccination program as supply has allowed. We’re now vaccinating hundreds of people each clinic day, helping to slow the spread of COVID-19,” said Atrium Health Navicent President and CEO Delvecchio Finley. “Expanded public vaccination services is another example of how we are committed to improving health and wellness, elevating hope and advancing healing for all.”
Vaccination services are available by appointment at the following locations:
To make an appointment, visit www.CovidsafeGA.org or call 478-633-SAFE (7233). Appointments are based on vaccine availability, which is allocated and managed by the state.
“We are excited to be able to help vaccinate residents not just in the communities we serve, but those who have traveled from as far away as Atlanta to receive vaccinations at our vaccine clinics,” said Dr. Sanford G. Duke, Chief Clinical Officer for Atrium Health Navicent. “COVID-19 vaccines have been determined to be safe and effective. We hope as many Georgians as possible will roll up a sleeve, receive protection against COVID-19 infection and help us in the fight to end the pandemic.”
Atrium Health Navicent is also participating in a growing number of community partnerships which are helping to ensure vulnerable populations such as seniors and those with difficulty accessing transportation receive protection against COVID-19.
Individuals with health questions about being vaccinated are asked to consult with their primary care physician.
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent, the leading provider of health care in central and south Georgia, is committed to its mission of elevating health and wellbeing through compassionate care. Providing more than 1,000 beds and offering care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region, Atrium Health Navicent provides care for health care consumers through an academic medical center; community, pediatric and rehabilitation hospitals; urgent care centers; physician practices; diagnostic centers; home health; hospice and palliative care; and a life plan community. Atrium Health Navicent is dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.
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Tanner Crests 10,000 Public Vaccines Administered 12:49 pmThe Cracker Barrel better get a table ready for Elsie Pinyan — she’s coming for supper.
The 92-year-old Winston resident received the 10,000th dose of COVID-19 vaccine that Tanner Health System has administered to the public since it began hosting vaccination clinics in January. And Pinyan said the first thing she wanted to do was go out to eat.
Pinyan received her shot — a second dose of the Moderna vaccine — during a vaccination clinic the health system hosted at Mill Town Music Hall in Bremen.
Educators with Bremen City Schools also received their first-dose shots at the event.
The health system was already nearing its 10,000th dose last week, when it hosted a March 10 vaccination clinic at Carrollton’s Tabernacle Baptist Church for those age 65 and older, residents of long-term care facilities and staff from the Carroll County School System, Carrollton City Schools, Oak Mountain Academy and Oak Grove Montessori School. More than 1,000 local educators received their first-dose shots that day.
Altogether, Tanner has administered almost 14,300 doses of vaccine, including more than 3,750 to its team of healthcare workers and medical staff.
Tanner’s goal is widespread vaccination, and its greatest obstacle is vaccine supply. As quickly as it receives vaccine doses from the state, however, the health system is planning vaccination clinics and encouraging people to register.
“We decided early that we were going to be our region’s COVID-19 vaccination leader,” said Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner. “Our leadership, our medical staff, our employees — everyone sees the vaccine as the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s safe and it works. We are uniquely positioned — with our staff, experience and local partnerships — to get as many vaccines administered as possible.”
Within hours of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine hitting the docks at Tanner in late December, the health system’s first vaccination clinic for healthcare workers had been set up at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton. Vaccinations for staff at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, Higgins General Hospital in Bremen and Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama followed in subsequent days.
Many on staff at Tanner considered their first dose of vaccine a Christmas miracle.
As vaccine shipments continued to arrive, Tanner opened vaccinations to the public in accord with state guidelines, administering vaccines to those age 65 and older.
Now that the state is widening the criteria for vaccine access, Tanner’s only obstacle is vaccine supply.
“We can’t give vaccines that we don’t have,” said Howard. “But we’re holding nothing back. Ultimately, everyone in our region who wants a vaccine should be able to get one — and we hope most people want one.”
One of the major hurdles when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination is logistics.
Two of the three vaccines that have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require specialized refrigeration to store; the mRNA vaccines must be kept extremely cold. They also require two doses to achieve maximum effect.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — the first approved — must be kept in deep-freeze with two doses administered about three weeks apart. The Moderna vaccine also has to be kept frozen, with two doses administered about four weeks apart.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine — the most recent with EUA — doesn’t have such rigorous storage requirements and can be completed in a single dose, but Tanner has received very few doses of that vaccine so far.
Once administered, those who receive the vaccine must be observed for at least 15 minutes to ensure there are no unexpected side effects. Social distancing requirements mean that those who are being observed must stay six feet apart.
Tanner also has to track who has received which vaccine, when they’re due for their second dose and make sure supply for those second doses is available.
“It’s a huge challenge,” said Denise Taylor, senior vice president and chief community health and brand officer at Tanner. “We have to account for keeping our vaccine inventory safe, the dosing we’ll need, the paperwork that has to accompany everyone being vaccinated, planning the second-dose clinics, ensuring we’re only giving vaccine to those who qualify, the clinical staff to administer the vaccine and observe those who receive it to ensure there are no complications, and communicate with all the stakeholders about registration, supply, availability and criteria.”
The health system has called on current staff, physicians, retired nurses and nursing students from the University of West Georgia to administer the vaccine. It’s also partnered with others in the community — like Tabernacle Baptist Church and Mill Town Music Hall — to serve as mass vaccination sites, where people can receive a vaccine indoors, socially distanced, and be safely observed.
“Everyone has stepped up in tremendous ways,” said Taylor. “This is a chance to give a shot that could save someone’s life. What a tremendous opportunity to have an impact.”
The health system plans to continue its vaccination clinics as long as it’s necessary, said Howard, expanding access in accordance with state guidelines until everyone who wants to be vaccinated can be. While Tanner can’t control how much vaccine it receives, it can keep rolling it out as quickly as possible.
“We’re going to administer vaccine just as fast as we get it,” he said. “This has been a long, hard year. We need people to wear masks, socially distance, wash their hands — and as soon as they can, to get vaccinated. We, too, miss seeing our loved ones, eating in restaurants, going to the movies. If we understand that we’re all in this together in fighting this virus — just like we were a year ago when our first cases arrived — we can get back to normal.”
More on Tanner’s vaccination efforts can be found at tanner.org/vaccine.
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Join Atrium Health Navicent in recognizing March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 6:33 pmThe community is invited to join Navicent Health in recognizing March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer, also known as colon cancer, is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States and affects 1 in 20 Americans. Incidence rates are particularly high among African-Americans, and the disease is very prevalent in the Southeast.
“This year, approximately 140,000 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and 56,000 people will die from this disease,” said Dr. Douglas Brewer, Chief Medical Officer for Navicent Health Baldwin and a board-certified colorectal surgeon. “It is a highly preventable and treatable disease if caught early and an estimated 40,000 or more lives could be saved through screening and early treatment.”
Screening tests can find precancerous polyps that can be removed before they turn into cancer. For individuals of average risk, regular screenings are recommended to begin at age 45.
“The great paradox of screening exams like colonoscopy is that they have to be done before any symptoms develop, when patients often feel like the test is not necessary,” said Dr. Eli Penn, a gastroenterologist and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Mercer University. “There are no early warning signs. The precancerous colon polyps that are the targets of colonoscopy don’t often cause symptoms and are easily removed during the screening procedure. It’s cancer that causes bleeding and abdominal pain, and by that time, it is often invasive or metastatic.”
Routine screenings are available through a person’s primary care provider. For more information, please visit www.navicenthealth.org.
About Atrium Health Navicent
Atrium Health Navicent, the leading provider of health care in central and south Georgia, is committed to its mission of elevating health and wellbeing through compassionate care. Providing more than 1,000 beds and offering care in 53 specialties at more than 50 facilities throughout the region, Atrium Health Navicent provides care for health care consumers’ through an academic medical center; community, pediatric and rehabilitation hospitals; urgent care centers; physician practices; diagnostic centers; home health; hospice and palliative care; and a life plan community. Atrium Health Navicent is dedicated to enhancing health and wellness for individuals throughout the region through nationally recognized quality care, community health initiatives and collaborative partnerships. For more information, please visit www.NavicentHealth.org.
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Southeast Georgia Health System Offering COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics in Brunswick and Kingsland 1:01 pmSoutheast Georgia Health System is offering Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine appointments for residents meeting current eligibility criteria at their Brunswick and Kingsland Vaccine Clinics. Appointments can be scheduled online at sghs.org/covid19-vaccine.
Brunswick Campus, Linda S. Pinson Conference Center
2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick
Every Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Camden Community Recreation Center
1050 Wildcat Drive, Kingsland
Every Monday and Friday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Effective March 15, an expanded group of individuals may receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Beginning March 15, 2021, the following populations will be eligible for COVID vaccination in Georgia:
o Asthma
o Cancer
o Cerebrovascular Disease
o Chronic Kidney Disease
o COPD
o Cystic Fibrosis
o Diabetes
o Hypertension
o Heart Conditions
o Immunocompromised State
o Liver Disease
o Neurologic Conditions
o Overweight and Obesity
o Pregnancy
o Pulmonary Fibrosis
o Sickle Cell Disease
o Thalassemia
Those receiving the vaccine must be available for a second dose 21 days later. Individuals receiving the vaccine must provide a form of identification, and should wear a shirt that provides access to their upper arm. Masks are required when in a Health System facility. Following the vaccination, recipients will be required to remain in an observation area for 15 minutes to ensure they do not experience any adverse reaction.
Even after receiving the vaccine, it remains extremely important to continue following safety protocols. Wear a mask, social distance, wash hands frequently and avoid large gatherings. Updated vaccine information is available on the Health System’s website at sghs.org/covid-19.
About Southeast Georgia Health System
Southeast Georgia Health System is a not-for-profit health system comprised of two acute care hospitals, two long term care facilities, two comprehensive Cancer Care Centers and multiple specialty care centers, including orthopaedic and spine care, joint replacement, breast care, maternity, outpatient rehabilitation, sleep management and wound care. The Brunswick Campus Cancer Care Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and offers the only CyberKnife® M6 with MLC technology in Georgia. Additionally, the Southeast Georgia Physician Associates medical group includes more than 140 providers working in 20 different medical specialties at more than 50 locations. For more information, visit sghs.org.