As a hospice chaplain, it’s Kerry Egan’s job to help dying people accept their own mortality.
Month: October 2016
Community Health chief leaving to become judge
Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday announced the appointment of the Department of Community Health’s commissioner, Clyde Reese, to the Georgia Court of Appeals. Reese, 57, has served as commissioner of DCH, the state’s main health care agency, since 2013. He will fill the vacancy on the bench created by the retirement of Judge Herbert E….
Medical school seeking to expand Ga. footprint to underserved area
The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, which already has a campus in suburban Atlanta, is moving to develop another med school location in Georgia. PCOM has signed an agreement with Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, in southwest Georgia, to produce a feasibility plan and present it to an accreditation committee for osteopathic colleges. The…
‘Health literacy’ can be a life-or-death matter
Many people have trouble understanding the medical conditions they have, the medications they take and the medical consent forms they have to sign. That’s an issue of “health literacy.” The term is not just a metaphor, because a big factor in health literacy is basic reading ability. According to Georgia’s Task Force on Adult Literacy,…
Testing under way for lead in DeKalb schools
Additional testing is under way after 4 out of 5 DeKalb County schools tested positive for the presence of lead in its drinking water. Read the full article: wsbtv.com
Breast cancer survivors express themselves through art
Mary Louise Griffin, 67, of Pine Mountain painted tulips as part of a ladies night out for breast cancer survivors held at Brushes and Beverages on Broadway. Read the full article: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Commentary: A less wasteful way to make care available
The affordability of health care became a headline issue again this week, with the spike in Obamacare premiums reported for next year. Georgia also has significant health care access issues, with rural hospital closures and doctor shortages. The solution to these problems isn’t in Medicaid expansion — or in doing nothing, says Kelly McCutchen in…
How to reduce high costs and wasteful spending in health care
It’s been a rough time for health care. Sixteen of the 23 federally funded, not-for-profit Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (co-ops) have now failed. Humana reduced its Georgia coverage area and Cigna, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna have completely pulled out of Georgia’s federally managed insurance exchange. Most premium rate increase requests for commercial health insurance in 2017…
Safe Harbor Fund supporters make new pitch for amendment
State Sen. Renee Unterman and supporters of a constitutional amendment intended to create a fund to help victims of sex trafficking recover from the experience pushed back against critics of the proposal. Read the full article: Gwinnett Daily Post
UGA student released from Shepherd 6 months after crash
The University of Georgia student who in April survived a car crash that killed four of her fellow students was discharged from the Shepherd Center in Atlanta where she underwent inpatient rehabilitation for a brain injury. Read the full article: Athens Banner-Herald