Press Releases Southeast Georgia Health System Volunteer Services Host Popular $5 Jewelry and Accessory Sale Oct 27, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Oct. 26, 2020 – Everyone who loves jewelry and appreciates scoring a great buy should mark Nov. 30-Dec. 6 on their calendars to save the date for Southeast Georgia Health System’s popular $5 Jewelry and Accessory Sale fundraiser. Hosted in partnership with the Health System’s Volunteer Services and Masquerade Fundraising, the sale is a great opportunity to purchase gifts for ... Keep Reading COVID-19 vs. Flu Oct 26, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Not sure if your symptoms point to flu or COVID-19? Learn the telltale signs of each condition, and contact your physician, if needed. Or call our COVID-19 hotline at 912-466-7222. Learn more (Written text for above "learn more" graphic.) Fever & Chills Fever and chills go hand in hand with flu and COVID-19. Chill out. Chills often predict a fever is coming, and they are common with ... Keep Reading See Yourself Behind the Wheel with 20-20 Vision Oct 14, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Southeast Georgia Health System Foundation Offers Opportunity To Win A Buick Encore GX October 12, 2020 – Winning a car in 2020 will most likely brighten up a year that’s been filled with challenges, social distancing and shelter-in-place orders. Although $20 may not buy very much these days, this fall it’s enough to buy you a chance to put you behind the wheel of a Buick Encore ... Keep Reading Health System Offering Flu Shots in Select Locations Oct 9, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Southeast Georgia Health System is offering flu vaccinations at all their primary care, family medicine, pediatric and pulmonary medicine physician practices! Find a location nearest you: Primary Care 2500 Starling Street, Ste. 401, Brunswick 3222-A Shrine Road, Brunswick 3025 Shrine Road, Suite 290, Brunswick 2060 Dan Proctor Drive, Suite 2100, St. Marys 7000 Wellness Way, Suite 7130, St. Simons ... Keep Reading The Flu Vaccine None of Us Can Afford to Miss Oct 5, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System October 3, 2020 – Who wants a flu vaccination? You and your family members do! The vaccine protects you during the height of flu season and beyond in two ways: It can help your body fend off the flu virus entirely, or it can lessen your symptoms if you get the virus. It also protects people around you who may not be able to get a flu shot, such as babies younger than six months old and ... Keep Reading Monday Morning Injury Clinic Aids Weekend Warriors Oct 2, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Healthy lifestyle habits, like a good diet and committing to a workout schedule, are great ways to spark a pick-me-up during these difficult times. But new workouts or trying a new sport can sometimes lead to sprains, strains and stress fractures. If your weekend plans were cut short from an unexpected injury, you now have the opportunity to visit a sports medicine physician on Monday mornings, ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Welcomes Benjamin Asher Bograd, D.O., to Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-General Surgery Sep 30, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System September 29, 2020 – Southeast Georgia Health System is pleased to welcome board-certified general surgeon Benjamin Asher Bograd, D.O. , to Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-General Surgery, and to the Camden Campus medical staff. Bograd earned his medical degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia. He completed his internship in general surgery ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Will Host Teleconference Hiring Event for Nurses On October 23 Sep 29, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Southeast Georgia Health System will host a Nurse Hiring Event on Friday, Oct. 23! To comply with CDC recommendations to limit gatherings to 10 people or less, this event will take place via teleconference. Simply RSVP for this event by contacting 912-466-3115 or nurserecruiter@sghs.org, and one of our recruitment team members will contact you to set up an interview. Learn more & RSVP The ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System To Host American Red Cross Blood Drive Sep 23, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System September 23, 2020 – In recent months, hospital demand for blood products has grown significantly after sharply declining this spring amid the public health crisis caused by coronavirus. Healthy individuals are needed now to donate to help patients counting on lifesaving blood. In response to the urgent need, Southeast Georgia Health System is hosting an American Red Cross blood drive on ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Reopens In-person Essential Visitation Sep 22, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Southeast Georgia Health System will reopen in-person essential visitation for non-COVID Inpatients on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. This update allows for: Visitor hours: Daily, 1-6 p.m.; continuous with no re-entry. Visitors must enter through Temporary Main Entrance (Brunswick Campus) or Main Entrance (Camden Campus). Visitors will be screened before entry, including temperature assessment and ... Keep Reading Senior Care Center Visitor Cottages Keep Families Connected Aug 31, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Saves Lives Aug 26, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Wound Care Center Recognized with National Award for Excellence in Wound Healing Aug 25, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading ScottsMiracle-Gro Donates 10,000 Face Shields to Southeast Georgia Health System Aug 24, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Children's Vaccines Should Remain a Priority During COVID-19 Aug 21, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Local Artist Randy Siegel Shows Appreciation to Health System Team Members Through Art Donation Aug 20, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Mylekia Ambers, CNA: the Mother Behind the Medicine Aug 19, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Navigating a New Era Aug 19, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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. . .” ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award Aug 17, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Respiratory Therapists: Working at the Epicenter of a Pandemic Aug 15, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Welcomes New Facilities Director Aug 13, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading ARTrageous Bras Inspire Creativity and Raise Awareness Aug 11, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading Southeast Georgia Health System Earns Remote Treatment Stroke Center Designation Aug 10, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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 ... Keep Reading U.S. News & World Report Names Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus a High Performing Hospital for COPD & Heart Failure Aug 4, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System 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. ... Keep Reading How to Wear a Mask and Face Covering Jul 30, 2020 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Wearing a mask or face covering is our best defense against the spread of COVID-19, but for masks to be effective, they need to be worn properly. Neil E. Goodman, M.D., FAAP, FACPE, Southeast Georgia Physician Associates-Pediatrics and Chief, Department of Pediatrics - Brunswick Campus, demonstrates how to best wear a mask. Be sure to cover both your nose and your mouth! Keep Reading 1251 Result(s) Page 1 of 51 1 2 . . . 50 51 Next