Category - Health

Nurses Week Spotlight: Linda Wise

Linda Wise is a senior staff nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit. She’s part of a team who transports sick infants by helicopter, plane or ambulance from other hospitals to CHOG and is also the coordinator for the neonatal ECMO program. ECMO...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a senior staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit, where he takes care of patients who have open-heart surgery and other surgical procedures that require intensive care. The Nursing Specialty Awards are given each year during...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Marcie Johnson

Marcie Johnson is a senior staff nurse in the post-anesthesia care unit and performs nursing assessments on patients who come from the operating room, manages their pain, assesses their physiologic and psychosocial health and transfers them to the...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Samantha Hughes

Samantha Hughes is the charge nurse in the Children’s Hospital of Georgia’s emergency department. She helps to manage the nurses, EMTs and clerks on the pediatric side of the emergency department. Samantha is the lead-by-example kind; during busy...

Nurses Week Spotlight: Catrina Crawford

Catrina Crawford is a senior staff nurse in the echo lab and performs stress tests to increase the heart’s workload and monitors for changes in the patient’s blood pressure and electrical activity of the heart. “Catrina advances the power of our...

Hospital Week celebrations wrap up today with cook out

Augusta University Health will celebrate the hard work, dedication and commitment of all our medical center personnel with a host of activities during Hospital Week, May 9-13. Monday, May 9, 8-10 a.m. in the Magnolia Room (Terrace Dining): Healthy...

Cancer Center announces name change

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The GRU Cancer Center will become the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. “This new name not only reflects our status as the state of Georgia’s official cancer center, but our commitment to research, treatment and outreach in...

Free Parkinson’s symposium scheduled for May 14

Patients, families, caregivers and anyone else affected by Parkinson’s disease are encouraged to attend a free educational symposium from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 at the J. Harold Harrison, MD Education Commons. Special guest Dr...

Ellison Lectureship program in pictures

Kicking off Alumni Weekend, Dr. Kevin Campbell delivered the Drs. Robert and Lois Ellison Lecture on Thursday, April 28. His talk, titled “Using Social Media to Transform Healthcare,” explored how mobile technology has allowed patients to be more...

From 500 seizures to zero

It’s a time that Marjorie St. John describes as “March madness” — the month that her 2-year-old daughter suffered 500 grand mal seizures and three hospitalizations. From talking, giggling and walking, Amelia, or Ami as her family calls her...

AU Health legal name announcement

By now you have probably had the opportunity to experience the new Augusta University brand. You may have seen our new look on television or billboards … while taking a stroll through downtown Augusta or shopping at the local mall … or maybe you’ve...

Raft Debate 2016 in photos

Representatives from medicine, pediatrics and surgery tried to sway Medical College of Georgia students during the 14th annual Raft Debate Friday, April 15, by debating which specialty is most important and would help the most people if saved. You...