A walk-in mental health crisis center has now opened in Newnan. Read the full article: Newnan Times-Herald
Month: August 2015
Warner Robins: Theft case
The former office manager of a thriving surgical practice has been charged with embezzling more than $1 million from her former employer. Read the full article: Macon Telegraph
Texting helps diabetes patients
Mobile technology can help diabetes patients with the process of titrating their dosage without having to see a doctor.
25 acres for med cannabis
Just 25 acres would be enough space to cultivate all of the marijuana needed to treat the patients in Georgia with eight conditions, a California grower told a state commission. Read the full article: Athens Banner-Herald
Georgia’s Katrina response
FEMA estimates as many as 100,000 people from New Orleans flooded into Atlanta to escape the horrendous conditions in their city after Katrina hit. Read the full article: WABE
Conyers: Abuse case
The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for donations to help 12 former residents of a personal care home who have allegedly been victimized by the owner. Read the full article: Rockdale Citizen
South Georgia teen rests after beating the plague
The first Georgia patient ever diagnosed with the plague is recovering at home after a week in a Thomasville hospital. Hannah Lindquist, 18, probably was bitten by an infected flea while hiking with her family in Yosemite National Park in California, her father, Ben, told GHN on Wednesday. Hannah, under doctors’ orders, will take a…
Psychiatric hospital CON bid
Atlanta’s Pill Hill could be getting a new $20 million psychiatric hospital that specializes in treating eating disorders. Read the full article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Gainesville: $20,000 fine
A Georgia drug treatment center has agreed to pay $20,000 to settle allegations by federal investigators that it failed to keep required records of controlled drugs. Read the full article: Augusta Chronicle
Newnan: CEO address
Piedmont Newnan Hospital provided $2.4 million in financial assistance and incurred more than $10 million in debt from uncompensated care. Read the full article: Newnan Times-Herald