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August 31, 2020 – In difficult times, necessity becomes the mother of invention. Southeast Georgia Health System’s Senior Care Centers in Brunswick and St. Marys have taken that to heart. Outside of each facility stands a collection of diminutive white cottages, each featuring a covered porch. “Because of the pandemic, it was necessary to restrict visitors at the Senior Care ...
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You might not recognize Bethany Chapman, CRCST; Cynthia Simmons or Andrew Wittmaak if you passed them on the street. However, if you ever need care at Southeast Georgia Health System, you will be glad they come to work each day. All three are part of the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) on the Brunswick Campus. Every day, they hold the lives of patients and staff in their hands. “We are ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System Provides Free Prostate Cancer Screenings August 26, 2020 – It may surprise you to learn that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death in American men, behind only lung cancer. It doesn’t have to be. With early detection, prostate cancer is very treatable. In fact, more than 3.1 million men have survived their diagnosis, thanks to screenings ...
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August 25, 2020 – Southeast Georgia Health System Wound Care Center physicians, leaders and clinicians recently gathered to celebrate the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D., Clinical Excellence Award. The Wound Care Center has scored in the top 10 percent of eligible Healogics® Wound Care Centers® on the Clinical Excellence measure, which is the Comprehensive Healing Rate weighted by wound ...
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August 24, 2020 – In times like these, we could all use a miracle. No one appreciates that more than Michael D. Scherneck. As President and CEO of Southeast Georgia Health System, he oversees the Brunswick and Camden campuses. Last week, Scherneck received his miracle in the form of 10,000 protective face shields, donated by the ScottsMiracle-Gro Company. The face shields could not have come ...
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Haley Allen, R.N., BSN, grew up in the emergency room (ER). When her police officer father worked nights, Haley accompanied her mother, an ER nurse, to work. “I knew then that I wanted to help people. To this day, the ER is my home. I feel comfortable there,” Allen says. After attending the College of Coastal Georgia and Georgia Southern University, the ink was barely dry on ...
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August 21, 2020 – While social distancing and self-isolating, some families are taking advantage of this extra at-home time by focusing on improving their health. Choosing to eat more nutritious foods and developing an exercise routine is good for the body as well as the mind and spirit, especially during a time when everyone’s normal routine is so disrupted. But health experts have an ...
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August 21, 2020 – Like so many Americans watching the pandemic unfold, Randy Siegel wondered what he could do for frontline hospital workers. “I had been thinking for a long time about what I could do to show appreciation for health care workers,” said Siegel, an artist who splits his time between St. Simons Island, Georgia, and Asheville, North Carolina. After watching a news ...
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Hundreds of people in our community visit the Southeast Georgia Health System Camden Campus every day. Doctors, nurses and health care professionals treat, comfort and heal patients with chronic and acute illnesses as well as emergent injuries. During the coronavirus pandemic especially, Health System team members on the front lines have made many sacrifices, oftentimes prioritizing their patients ...
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If you were to follow Raymond “Ray” Quinones-Ortega, R.N. around his workplace, a few lines from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” might come to mind: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs. . . If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting. . .” ...
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American Heart Association Award recognizes Southeast Georgia Health System’s commitment to quality stroke care. August 14, 2020 - Southeast Georgia Health System has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke ...
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Breathing is a basic human function and seemingly involuntary until the moment your airway is obstructed. Every day, respiratory therapists are the first line of defense between life and death when patients struggle to breathe. “Very few people outside of health care know the functions of a respiratory therapist. During this pandemic, the public now knows that respiratory therapists are an ...
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MassMutual has created the MassMutual HealthBridge program, a FREE $25,000 life insurance program for eligible health care workers on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s their way of supporting health care workers and protecting the ones we love. Learn more
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August 13, 2020 – Southeast Georgia Health System is pleased to welcome Craig W. Stuckless, CHFM, as the new director of Facilities. Stuckless brings 18 years of experience in health care facility operations to his new position. Prior to joining the Health System, Stuckless was the director of Support Services and director of Engineering and Safety at Meadows Regional Medical Center in ...
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August 11, 2020 - The coronavirus may have caused a disruption to many of our favorite activities and celebrations this year, but the Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation ’s ARTrageous Bras fundraiser is not one of them. Registrations and sponsorship opportunities for the annual fundraiser, which provides participants an opportunity to challenge their creativity by decorating bras in a ...
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August 10, 2020 – The Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick and Camden Campus hospitals were recently designated Remote Treatment Stroke Centers by the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma. According to DPH, both hospitals are now an integral part of Georgia’s comprehensive stroke care system. “The designation recognizes ...
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Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus has been recognized as a High Performing Hospital for 2020-21 by U.S. News & World Report. The annual Procedures & Conditions ratings, now in their 6th year, are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for common conditions and elective procedures. These ratings extend the U.S. ...
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