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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...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – From developing some of the first oral contraceptives to pioneering telemedicine technologies for faster stroke intervention, doctors at Augusta University and its historic Medical College of Georgia have long been recognized as...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta University’s health system has earned three patient care quality and safety awards from the Partnership for Health and Accountability, an affiliate of the Georgia Hospital Association. The health system earned awards for...
The American College of Radiology has published a case study on our pediatric radiology renovations at Children’s Hospital of Georgia. The article is available on the ACR website and includes interviews with Angalita Stephens and her son Henry...
Modern Healthcare magazine published an article about the the Philips Healthcare partnership signed this week with Marin General Hospital in California. The article also highlights expense reductions at GRHealth that have resulted from a first-of...
Bernard Roberson, administrative director of Patient- and Family-Centered Care at Augusta University, recently shared tips on how to successfully recruit patients and family members to serve as patient advisers for The Beryl Institute, a global...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – GRHealth was presented the prestigious Harry Orme, M.D., Partnership Award for exemplary Patient- and Family-Centered Care at the national PFCC Conference in October in California. The award was established in 2013 to recognize a...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The stigma of having and treating mental health problems must give way to an integrated educational and health care model that embraces recovery, experts say.
Pediatric patients and their siblings dressed as superheroes, firemen, Disney characters, witches, insects, and donned other Halloween apparel as they made their way through the floors of the Children’s Hospital of Georgia and a couple of...
Dr. Peter F. Buckley, dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, received the Medical Trailblazer Award from the Augusta City Classic at the organization’s annual banquet and Hall of Fame Induction on Thursday, Oct. 8...
In 1999, living in New York as an artist, Allison Massari was injured in a high-speed car crash. “I nearly burned to death,” said Massari, speaker at the 2015 GRHealth Patient- and Family-Centered Care Conference Thursday. “I was conscious the...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The survivor of two near-fatal car crashes, one of which left her burned on more than 50 percent of her body, will speak on the heart and soul of health care – the patient experience – at the 2015 GRHealth Patient- and Family-Centered...
Augusta University Health (formerly GRHealth) has earned a Patient-Centric Imaging Award from Health Imaging magazine for its makeover of the pediatric imaging suite at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia. The awards, developed in conjunction with...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Fourteen physicians at Georgia Regents University and GRHealth have been included in the 14th edition of “America’s Top Doctors,®” a national patient reference guide published by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. that identifies the top 1...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Running is one of the easiest ways to stay fit, but it’s not without dangers. With more than 1,000 participants signed up for the GRU Augusta Half Marathon and 10k on Sunday, Feb. 22, GRHealth Sports Medicine offers the following tips...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home has been ranked in the nation’s top 15 percent among senior health care providers for patient satisfaction, earning the 2015 Customer Experience Award™ from Pinnacle Quality Insight, a nationally...
