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The Georgia Power Ambassadors, a local group of retired Georgia Power team members, recently made a generous donation of kitchen and pantry supplies, paper products and personal hygiene items to Southeast Georgia Health System’s Nunnally House. Located adjacent to the Health System’s Brunswick Campus, Nunnally House offers warm, home-like lodging for cancer patients and family members ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System is pleased to provide access to quality mammography in Glynn County and rural areas of Southeast Georgia with its Wellness on Wheels (WOW) mobile health vehicle. The Health System began its mobile mammography in 2006 with the custom designed WOW, a completely self-contained mobile health vehicle that features the same advanced digital mammography equipment found at ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System has launched, “Dr. Beau Sasser’s Sports Medicine Blog,” an online forum dedicated to educating the community on current sports medicine practices. Beau Sasser, M.D., board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, Summit Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery, is the blog’s featured author. Blog followers can look forward to a wide range of sports ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System is honored to welcome John William Tsai, M.D. , a board-certified general surgeon to Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-Glynn General and Vascular Surgery, a strategic affiliate of the Health System. Tsai earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and completed his general surgery residency at Eisenhower Army ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System will host its annual Community Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Brunswick High School, 3885 Altama Avenue. The health fair will include many different educational opportunities and health screenings for the entire family, as well as demonstrations, community vendors, and children’s activities. da Vinci® Robotic ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System presented Kayleigh Crews with the 2015 Star of the Year award during the annual Service Awards Banquet, held on Thursday, May 19, at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. A registrar in the Camden Campus Admissions department, Crews has been employed with the Health System since 2009, and received the award for consistently going beyond her job expectations to meet ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System honored long-time team members during the annual Service Awards Banquet held at the Jekyll Island Convention Center on Thursday, May 19, with a theme of “Counting Our Blessings, Thankful For Your Service.” More than 300 team members with five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years of service were honored with a delectable buffet dinner and ...
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The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) recently honored Karen Andrews Daniel, administrator, Southeast Georgia Health System Senior Care Center-Brunswick, as a 2016 recipient of the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award. The Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award, named in memory of visionary ACHCA member Eli Pick, recognizes administrators whose teams have achieved exceptional ...
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Can’t sleep? Tired of counting sheep? You are not alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 50-70 million American adults have a sleep or wakefulness disorder, and insufficient sleep has been declared a public health problem. “Each person’s ‘right’ number of sleep hours varies, but it’s important that people realize that just as diet and ...
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Southeast Georgia athletes and weekend warriors, as well as non-athletes, have an ally in orthopaedic surgeon J. Melvin Deese, M.D. Having trained with James R. Andrews, M.D., one of the world’s leading sports medicine specialists, Deese brings leading edge orthopaedic care and years of experience to St. Marys. The board-certified surgeon previously treated patients in the Summit Sports ...
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Residents and visitors alike know that summer in the Golden Isles is a beautiful and wonderful time of year. Warm weather and sunny skies have families enjoying outdoor activities such as swimming, boating, picnicking, biking or fishing. Southeast Georgia Health System encourages the community to enjoy summer activities, but to do so safely by taking precautions to avoid some of the more dangerous ...
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What is pre-diabetes and is it something you need to worry about? In the United States, 29.1 million people have diabetes, and another 86 million have pre-diabetes, a condition where their blood sugars are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with diabetes. Join us for the Lunch and Learn For Your Health lecture at the Golden Isles YMCA from 12 to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25, as ...
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Dr. Beau Sasser
This is my first blog, and all the election-year campaigning has inspired me to begin this post with my own platform. It is constructed from both my personal experiences and those of the multitudes who have shuffled through the doors of my clinic over the last decade. The best professional advice I can give to you can be expressed in a single word: moderation. Too much or too little of anything is ...
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In the spring 2016 Hospital Safety Scores report recently released by The Leapfrog Group, the Southeast Georgia Health System Camden Campus earned a letter grade of “A”, ranking among the safest hospitals protecting patients from preventable medical errors, injuries and infections. “This spring, our Camden Campus hospital was one of 17 hospitals in Georgia to receive an ...
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The Southeast Georgia Health System, Inc. Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members: Stephen A. Chitty IV, M.D.; Kay Hampton, R.N., MSN; and Shirley D. Wilson, M.D., along with the re-appointment for second terms for Valerie A. Hepburn, Ph.D., and Robbie Turner. The Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority ratified the new members during its Board meeting on ...
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