Douglas County ICU workers honored for dedication during pandemic
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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(Photo: Douglas County Board of Commissioners)
DOUGLAS CO., Ga. - The past year has been hard on everyone, particularly the dedicated members of the frontline healthcare industry.
As Wellstar Douglas Hospital Sr. Vice President and Administrator Craig Ownes puts it, healthcare workers have persevered through it by banding together. It’s been a hard year and I just want to say thank you to everybody for supporting our hospital and for supporting each other, Owens said. It’s a team and that team extends beyond the walls of the hospital. It extends to our community and our residents and we’ve pulled together to make our way through this.
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DOUGLASVILLE â On Sunday, April 18, the GBI was requested by the Douglasville Police Department (DPD) to investigate an officer-involved shooting.
Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 2:07 a.m., DPD officers were conducting a driverâs license and safety checkpoint on Chapel Hill Road near the I-20 exit. While at the checkpoint, officers saw a vehicle attempting to avoid law enforcement. Officers began to pursue the vehicle, but it stopped and the male driver ran. Officers set up a perimeter and requested assistance from the Austell Police Departmentâs K-9 Unit. During the search, the man was found and gunfire was exchanged with an Austell PD officer. During the shooting, Austell PD K-9 âJerry Leeâ was struck once in his front left leg.
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A Jackson Healthcare unit can get up to $68 million more to supply nurses and other health care workers to help hospitals and nursing homes deal with the COVID surge, under a state contract extension.
The Alpharetta-based company received a no-bid contract early in the pandemic for staffing. That original contract could extend to $250 million by the end of this year.
With the extension, the total that the Jackson Healthcare unit can receive could exceed $300 million.
The new agreement would extend the contract till March 6.
The firm, whose political connections have led to some criticism of the contract, has worked with more than 50 Georgia hospitals to help augment their workforces.