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Adair County Health System welcomes Catherine Hillestad as Chief Executive Officer 05/24/2021 Greenfield, Iowa; May 24, 2021 – Adair County Health System, an affiliate of MercyOne, announces Catherine Hillestad will join as Chief Executive Officer beginning July 7, 2021. A native of Des Moines, Ms. Hillestad brings experience in community and rural health care systems including serving in an interim CEO role at Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield and most recently as Practice Administrator at...

AllOnGeorgia April 29, 2021 East Georgia Medical & Surgical Associates is working to make it easier than ever to see a primary care provider. New and existing patients now may request Telehealth ASAP, which allows access to your existing primary care doctor or the next available provider from the comfort of home – without an appointment. “Easy access to care is important to us,” says Allison Clark, Practice Administrator of East Georgia Medical & Surgical Associates. “For some people, t...

Georgia medical center suspended from COVID-19 vaccine program Georgia medical center suspended from COVID-19 vaccine program By Jessica Savage | January 28, 2021 at 7:18 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 12:55 PM SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The COVID-19 vaccine is hard to come by in Georgia. We’ve gotten many questions into the WTOC newsroom about how some have gained access over others. And who is checking to make sure those who receive the vaccine are eligible under state health guidelines? T...

Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health have suspended The Medical Center of Elberton from Georgias COVID-19 Vaccination Program, but they say there are other locations in the county for residents to receive vaccines.  The hospital was suspended for vaccinating teachers in the county; teachers are not part of the population currently eligible to receive COVID vaccines. The suspension - effective Wednesday, Jan. 27 - was confirmed in a press release issued Thursday.  "The susp...

Big way. we serve over a million meals a day. these arent the people that can go out and shout in the streets and make sure that the folks up on capitol hill know whats going on. now youre truly shut in. >> welcome back to "hardball." last night way brought you chairman of the board of directors for the meals on wheels association of america to explain the toll, the across the board spending cuts known as sequester, some of americas most vulnerable people. heres the director of the community onc...

Are going to these community onkolg clinics, right? >> thats correct. for the viewers who arent familiar with what we say, these are the private practices within peoples hometowns. this is where the joirtd of cancer treatments are treated. >> in these cancer clinics, government medicare helps to pay the cost of chemotherapy drugs, which are very expensive, right? >> right. very expensive. when people are reading about sequestration, theyll focus on the economic terms. its hard for patients to un...

Heres the director of the community oncology alliance talking about the effects of these arbitrary cuts on some cancer patients. >> i had spoke to another practice administrator in salt lake city. she has an 82-year-old patient, a lymphoma survivor who has to travel 62 miles. >> you already have cancer, now you have this. weve told you about some of the programs hurt by sequester huts. special education and head start, of course. thats just a sampling. were going to keep track, by the way, of th...

Had to go into other settings. again, instead of being in their normal place with their normal physicians and doctors -- >> in the midst of chemo, lets be clear. >> yes, thats very upsetting. i mentioned i am a ten year survivor. i can remember what it felt like like it was yesterday. youre so vulnerable, so upset, its the worst time of your life. no matter what youre portraying on the outside, your heart is breaking. you could be a single parent, in this case, were talking about a medicare-age ...

Cancer administrators and patient advocates from our practice. again, these are people that run the practices and patients within the practices. one of our practices, northwest georgia oncology, they have ten locations. 76 of their patients have now had to go into other settings. again, instead of being in their normal place with their normal physicians and doctors -- >> in the midst of chemo, lets be clear. >> i can remember what it felt like like it was yesterday. youre so vulnerable, so upset...