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Georgia Health News: Medical cannabis bill nears the finish line; Hufstetler amendment rejected

Posted on March 25, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: A two-year quest for medical cannabis in Georgia has a successful end in sight. The state Senate passed legislation Tuesday to allow the use of medical marijuana for eight health conditions, after rejecting amendments that would have… Read more

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Georgia Health News: Autism bill appears stalled in House

Posted on March 24, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: The fight over autism treatment coverage continued in a House committee hearing Monday, pitting organizations concerned about costs against those advocating for the most effective services for children. read more

Darlington’s Seventh Annual Light the Lake, honoring those touched by cancer, is this Friday

Posted on March 23, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Darlington’s Seventh Annual Light the Lake event, around Silver Lake on the Rome campus, is set for Friday and nice again will “honor and memory of loved ones affected by cancer. Proceeds raised by the event will be split between local non-profit organizations Cancer Navigators and Summit Quest.“ read more

Gordon EMS named the Georgia Region I EMS Service of the Year

Posted on March 20, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Gordon EMS, a service of Gordon Hospital, was named the Georgia Region I EMS Service of the Year during the 2015 Northwest Georgia EMS Awards Banquet held March 12 at Wellstar Paulding Hospital in Hiram. Gordon EMS has earned this title twice in three years. read more

Latest ‘Your Health’ updates by Dr. Leonard Reeves, Georgia Highlands and the Medical College of Georgia

Posted on March 20, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Dr. Leonard Reeves, assistant dean of the Northwest Georgia campus of Georgia Regents University/The Medical College of Georgia, now offers a series of quick medical tips via video and YouTube. You can “subscribe” to the updates by clicking here. We’ll also continue to feature one or two videos as they become available from Reeves, the… Read more

Georgia Health News: Medical cannabias bill earns key victory

Posted on March 20, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Georgia’s medical marijuana proposal took what its chief sponsor called “a giant leap’’ forward Thursday by passing a Senate committee after a long, emotional hearing. read more

More than half of state’s school systems — including all in Northwest Georgia — now tobacco free

Posted on March 20, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Monday on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, WRGA 98.7 FM: Lisa Stone, health promotions coordinator for Public Health, will discuss Georgia’s 100% Tobacco-Free School policy. Media release: More than half - 101 out of 181 - Georgia school districts are now tobacco-free. Emanuel County Schools, Lowndes County Schools and Jenkins County Schools all recently implemented Georgia’s 100% Tobacco-Free… Read more

Georgia Health News: State Senate panel gives doctors a pay raise for Medicaid

Posted on March 19, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: A state Senate panel gave Georgia primary care doctors a potential financial boost Wednesday, putting millions of dollars into the state budget for a pay raise to deliver services to Medicaid patients. read more

Georgia Health News: State’s exchange rates hold the line, beat U.S. average

Posted on March 18, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Premiums in Georgia’s insurance exchange showed only a slight increase in 2015, as compared with the South overall and the nation as a whole, according to a new analysis released Tuesday. read more

Georgia Health News: Health IT is big and Georgia is its epicenter

Posted on March 17, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News: Chris Hooper and his startup firm, Emergence, are betting on the boom in health information technology. Launched last year as an “accelerator,’’ Emergence will take fledgling health IT companies and get them ready to pitch investors for… Read more

Georgia Health News: Health bills survive cut at deadline

Posted on March 15, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News Bruce Thompson has a personal stake in the topic of secondhand smoke. Thompson, a Republican state senator from White, says he has suffered from asthma since childhood. His mother was a smoker, he says, and secondhand smoke… Read more

Georgia Health News: School nurses shortage: A quiet crisis in Georgia

Posted on March 14, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Ansley Stewart, Georgia Health News Sally Boswell is the first person many low-income families in Greene County call when their child gets sick. She hears about everything from acute ear infections to chronic conditions such as diabetes. Boswell helps parents, grandparents or guardians… Read more

Floyd Medical Center: Wade Monk to retire, Tommy Manning joining Legal team

Posted on March 13, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Kurt Stuenkel, Floyd President and CEO, announced today that Wade Monk, General Counsel, will retire later this fall, and that Tommy Manning is joining Floyd’s legal department on April 1. “Wade has been our trusted legal counsel for 30 years now,” Stuenkel said. “He joined Floyd as a full-time employee in 2002. We… Read more

Georgia Health News: Emory Healthcare gets new president, CEO

Posted on March 12, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller for Georgia Health News Emory University announced Wednesday that Michael J. Mandl will take over as president and CEO of the university’s health care operations. read more

Georgia Health News: State probing coverage of tobacco cessation

Posted on March 11, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

For more on these and additional updates, please click Georgia Health News: By Andy Miller, Georgia Health News State insurance officials are investigating whether health insurers are covering tobacco-cessation products as a free benefit, as required under the Affordable Care Act. read more