SGMC News & Events

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and South Georgia Medical Center will host a free prostate cancer screening for eligible men on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 from 5pm to 7pm at the Pearlman Cancer Center.  The screening tests, for men ages 55 to 69, who meet the screening guidelines, will include a prostate specific antigen […]

SGMC Manager of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Toni Quimby presents Dr. Roberto Garcia with the Hospital Hero award at the August Board of Directors’ meeting. The Hospital Authority of Valdosta Lowndes County Georgia named Dr. Roberto Garcia as the hospital hero for August because of his commitment to care inside and outside the hospital.  […]

8/23/2018 The Hospital Authority of Valdosta Lowndes County Georgia met five of eight third-year medical students from VCOM, the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (Auburn Campus), on Wednesday. SGMC Affiliated Physician Jarod Bailey, DO, who is a local Internal Medicine specialist with Valdosta Medical Clinic and VCOM graduate, introduced the students to the Board […]

The SGMC Lakeland Villa has received the 2018 Excellence in Action Workforce Award from NRC Health, the largest source of long-term care and senior-living satisfaction metrics in the nation. According to Lakeland Villa Administrator Geoff Hardy, “We couldn’t be more pleased to have earned this national distinction by achieving 90th percentile scores for employee satisfaction. […]

8/2/2018 South Georgia Medical Center’s Mobile Healthcare Services is delivering life-saving bleeding control kits to schools in three South Georgia Counties and teaching the appropriate use of the kits’ contents. Over the next few months, schools in Echols, Lanier and Lowndes Counties will benefit from the statewide Stop the Bleed grant. Recently, SGMC Mobile Healthcare […]

Patient Care Tech Morgan Moore swaddles baby Penelope Scott in a HALO SleepSack purchased with funds raised by South Georgia Medical Center’s Employee Giving Campaign. Babies delivered at South Georgia Medical Center will sleep a little safer thanks to the generous giving of employees to the hospital’s Foundation. The Foundation implemented an employee giving campaign, […]

7/30/2018 Patrick Moon, South Georgia Medical Center physical therapist, assists 67-year-old Bill Cunningham as he plays golf Wednesday morning during the Adaptive Golf Clinic opener. Cunningham suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side. Article by Amanda M. Usher with the Valdosta Daily Times, originally printed in the July 30, 2018 edition. Bih Cunningham was […]

7/30/2018 HIMSS Analytics announced that South Georgia Medical Center and its Berrien and Lanier campuses have achieved Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 to help evaluate the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals like SGMC, its campuses, and […]

James Davis, MD, has joined Jared Sanders, MD and Stephen Zeigler, MD in the practice of surgery at South Georgia Medical Center.  A general and specialty surgery practice, SGMC Surgery is located on the second floor of the SGMC Professional Building, Suite 200.  The practice can be contacted by calling (229) 333-1711. In addition to […]

South Georgia Medical Center named Marguerite Moehle as the July DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses honoree. The award is part of the international DAISY Foundation, a program developed to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday.  Moehle, a registered nurse in the Radiology department, was nominated by a patient. The patient commended Moehle’s professionalism and […]