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9/22/2010 SGMC will hold it’s annual Clinical Breast Cancer Screening on October 14, 2010 at the Pearlman Cancer Center from 5pm – 7pm. Screenings are FREE! Register today under Classes & Events or call 229-333-1074.Registration is required to be seen the day of the screening!

9/15/2010 South Georgia Medical Center’s Diabetes Management Center will host its monthly Life with Diabetes session on Monday, September 20, at 6:00 p.m. at the Diabetes ManagementCenter. This month’s meeting will have special guest, Garland Stephens, member of the sanofi-aventis A1C Champions, which is a patient led approach to diabetes education. Garland’s presentation will cover […]

South Georgia Medical Center and the SGMC Diabetes Management Center are saddened to announce the death of Endocrinologist Enrico Ruffy, MD on Friday, September 3. Dr. Ruffy had been affiliated with SGMC for the past two years and treated patients at SGMC’s Diabetes Management Center. Randy Sauls, SGMC administrator, expressed condolences on behalf of the hospital. Sauls […]

In order to speed life-giving intervention to heart patients around the region, South Georgia Medical Center has purchased Rosetta Lt Data Translators for the public and private ambulance services in Brooks, Berrien and Cook Counties. Previously, SGMC purchased devices for ambulances in Lanier, Lowndes and Clinch Counties. Now, all ambulances in the region have the […]

8/18/2010 Greenleaf Outpatient Counseling Center is now approved to accept Tri-Care/Value Options Insurance for Mental Health patients wanting to use the Partial Hospitalization Program, or PHP. The Partial Hospitalization Program is Greenleaf’s most intensive level of outpatient treatment. Patients participating in the PHP receive treatment similar to that of a hospital inpatient; however, the therapies […]

Lanier Health Services administrator, Neil Ginty, recently accepted the second of four donations from the Oaklawn Foundation. Foundation members Larry Lee and Ben Copeland presented a check in the amount of $25,000 to allow LHS aid in funding capital projects. The first donation was made last July and two additional donations will be made after this one to total $100,000.Funds are raised through the Deer […]

Beverly Henderson presents a check for $10,000 from the Doug Henderson III, Memorial Fund to SGMC Foundation Director, Elizabeth Vickers during a luncheon on May 20, 2010.  The annual golf tournament fund raiser was held in September 2009 in memory of one of the Henderson’s sons, Doug Henderson III. Proceeds from this event benefit the […]