Walker Named Volunteer of the Year
Tweet Special to the Journal Grace Walker was recently named the 2011 Lillian B. Allison Volunteer of the Year during Phoebe’s Volunteer Birthday Celebration and Recognition Dinner. The event, held in the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, honored 535 volunteers who had committed 61,008 hours of volunteer service during Phoebe’s 2010-11 Fiscal [...]
Read More →Phoebe Begins New $30M Center
Tweet Special to the Journal Phoebe Putney Health System broke ground last week on the construction of a $30 million Digestive Diseases Center in Albany. The facility, being built at Meredyth Place, will expand the hospital’s gastroenterology capabilities and is expected to be complete in 14 months.
Read More →Attorney General Approves Lease Agreement between Hospital Authority and Phoebe Dorminy Medical Center
Tweet NEWS RELEASE 7/18/11 FITZGERALD, Ga. – The office of the Georgia Attorney General has given its blessing to the proposed lease agreement between the Hospital Authority of Ben Hill County and Phoebe Dorminy Medical Center, which will make the Fitzgerald hospital a part of Phoebe Putney Health System. The Authority and Dorminy Medical Center [...]
Read More →Phoebe Worth Medical Center To Host ‘Scenes of Worth’
Tweet Phoebe Worth Medical Center and the Sylvester-Worth County Chamber of Commerce are inviting media and the public to join them for a premier viewing and dedication on Monday, July 18. “Scenes of Worth,” a pictorial view of Worth County as seen through the lens of Doug Wolfe, is part of Phoebe’s Centennial Celebration recognizing [...]
Read More →Meredyth Reopened To Traffic Following Storm Damage
Tweet By Valerie Benton Meredyth Drive has been reopened to through traffic after temporary roadwork at Meredyth Drive experienced storm damage this weekend . Meredyth Drive was closed to through traffic until the damage could be repaired on Sunday, according to John Fischer, senior vice president of Facilities and Construction at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Construction crews will be continuing roadwork and if there [...]
Read More →BLESSING OF THE HANDS
Tweet The nursing staff at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital blesses others every day with the work they do. But during Nurses Week, Phoebe’s Spiritual Care Department organized times in the Denson Chapel of the hospital when community clergy and Phoebe pastoral associates could bless the hands of the nurses. “Blessing of the Hands” was offered [...]
Read More →New colon study at Phoebe
Tweet Staff reports A new colorectal polyp prevention study has opened at The Phoebe Cancer Center for patients who have had surgery for early stage colon cancer. The study, “Statin Polyp Prevention Trial in Patients with Resected Colon Cancer” will be investigating a statin drug in reducing the risk of recurrence of colon cancer [...]
Read More →Joel Wernick talks about Phoebe/Palmyra merger
Tweet Ever since the public announcement was made in December that the Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County would purchase Palmyra Medical Center and merge its assets with the Phoebe Putney Health System – thus making Phoebe the sole provider of hospital care in the Albany area – Phoebe CEO Joel Wernick has a spent great [...]
Read More →UGA Pharmacy School expands at Phoebe
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital has added to its multidisciplinary approach to health care by expanding its partnership with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. UGA will now teach as many as 50 graduate-level pharmacy students in new classroom space on the Phoebe campus in the former Albany Middle School [...]
Read More →Phoebe pledges $1M to GSW
Tweet By Stephen Snyder On Monday, while signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Georgia Southwestern State University President Kendall Blanchard, Phoebe Putney Health System CEO Joel Wernick announced that Phoebe is donating $1 million to equip a virtual learning center to train nursing students in the University’s new Health and Sciences Building.
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