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House Bill 198 will damage the state’s health care system.
House Bill 198 will improve access to quality medical services.

Those diametrically opposed views resounded during a passionate, occasionally testy three-hour
legislative hearing Thursday on the high-profile bill, which
would revamp Georgia’s health care regulatory system.
The newly formed House committee on health care access heard
from a stream of opponents and supporters of the overhaul of the current certificate of need (CON) apparatus.
CON governs the construction and expansion of health care facilities and services.
A provider currently must obtain a "certificate of need" to proceed with such a project.

House Bill 198
and Senate Bill 74 would generally replace the CON structure (except as it applies to nursing
homes and home health agencies) with a licensing framework,
easing many of the current rules. State Rep.
Matt Hatchett, a Dublin Republican and sponsor of the bill, said Wednesday that the legislation seeks to stabilize rural hospitals, promote transparency among nonprofit hospitals and drive down health
care costs and insurance rates. Rep. Terry England,
an Auburn Republican and also a sponsor, added, "We’re trying to do what’s best for the patient.’’ It aims to promote access, affordability and quality of care, he said. The CON debate, meanwhile, has helped elevate health care as a huge issue at the 2019 General Assembly. On Wednesday, Gov. Brian Kemp introduced his proposal to seek Medicaid and insurance waivers.

The former is designed to provide coverage to many of Georgia’s uninsured, and the latter would presumable seek to stabilize the health insurance exchange for individual policies. Thursday’s focus, though, shifted to the CON bill. "I know it’s a
very emotional issue,’’ said the committee’s chairman, Richard Smith, a Columbus
Republican, at the outset of the hearing. Setting up separate licensing rules
in metro Atlanta vs. Hospital opponents of the bill told committee members that it would hurt health care, especially in rural areas.
"We’ve been hit over the head on this,’’ Ethan James, a Georgia Hospital Association vice president, said of the legislation. It would do "tremendous damage to
our rural health care system," he said. James said 60 rural hospitals in Georgia are against the bill. But Jimmy Lewis of HomeTown Health, an association of 48 rural hospitals, said his membership was split on the measure.

The industry is far from united on the topic. Grady Health System in Atlanta and HCA, which has several hospitals in the state, have said they are studying the legislation. Even some hospital groups testifying Thursday said they agreed with certain provisions, including the increase in the rural hospital tax credit, and the financial transparency for nonprofit hospitals. Hospital groups, though, have voiced deep concern about the lifting of restrictions on ambulatory surgery and imaging centers, saying they would siphon off privately insured patients. Lewis of HomeTown Health said his hospital members are united against easing the surgery center rules.

WellStar Health System’s Dr. Rob Schreiner said the state already has a large number of ambulatory surgery centers. Schreiner also said the physician community "is split right down the center’’ on CON.
Proponents of surgery centers, though, said these facilities can provide
high-quality care at a lower cost for patients and insurers, and also would
be subject to indigent care requirements.

Perhaps the most striking testimony and position came from Piedmont
Healthcare, a nonprofit system of 11 hospitals in Georgia.
Supporters of the bill included representatives of Legacy Sports
Institute, the proposed sports medicine center in Alpharetta, and of Cancer Treatment
Centers of America.

Because of the current restrictions, said CTCA lobbyist Ray Williams, the Newnan facility
has had to turn away, deny or delay care for 211 Georgians.

The bill would "create more access and choice in cancer care,’’ he said. The tone of the hearing turned contentious when state Rep. Ed Rynders, an Albany Republican, said hospital groups hadn’t shown a willingness to compromise until the House bill was introduced. "There has been a lot of discussion … on compromise,’’ Smith said.
"That if we wait long enough, it will just kind of go away. And that’s not going to happen. This is just not going to go away.

The required drug is expected to cause an adverse reaction or physical or mental harm to the patient. The required medication is expected to be ineffective based on the clinical condition of the patient and the characteristics of the drug. The patient has tried the required drug under current or previous health insurance and it was discontinued due to lack of efficacy, diminished effect or an adverse event. The patient’s condition is stable on a prescription drug previously selected by a medical provider for the condition targeted. "Step therapy is threatening the health of
people across Georgia and causing unnecessary suffering and
hospitalizations,’’ she said. The legislation has the support of state Rep.

Kim Schofield, an Atlanta Democrat who has personal experience with the issue.
She fought an insurer’s denial of coverage of a treatment for her lupus.

MCG researchers will work with hypertensive
patients in the family medicine and internal medicine practices at MCGHealth to see if
the electronic personal health record enhances patient involvement.
Two small studies will first get patient and physician input on how to make, IQHealth™, the electronic personal health record developed by Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corp, more patient friendly.

"Hypertension, which is so pervasive in our society, is a great model because lifestyle has such an impact and the outcomes are relatively easy to measure," Dr.
Wagner says. "Patient-care documentation systems today are dominantly in the hands of the providers and written from their perspective,"
Mrs. Sodomka says. "The shift is toward shared information systems with patients and families, where patients and families can put their own information in there, their observations, their tracking, documenting things that are important to them.

This is a shift that is being made in health care, a huge shift and this study is part of that. 30,000 grant from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2005 to test the Cerner system, used under the brand name My HealthLink at MCGHealth, in patients with multiple sclerosis. The 12-month study found that patients liked having a secure electronic link to care givers and that the electronic personal health record is an effective tool in helping battle chronic disease. "An electronic personal health record is recognition that if we
are serious about optimal outcomes in health care, we have to involve the patient," says Dr. Charlotte Weaver, vice president and executive director for nursing research at Cerner.

The company, a pioneer in the evolution of the electronic medical record and electronic personal health record, got patient input for the design of its system and looks forward to additional input to further refine the product, she says. Refinements likely will include feeding blood pressure measurements directly from the cuff to the electronic personal health record. Similar direct feeds with weight scales and even urine analysis via the toilet also are under development. "We are actively working on the integration of medical devices," Dr. Weaver says. "At the end of the day, if you can deliver a personal health record that people
will use, that delivers just tremendous value to our health care system as well as to individuals,
" Dr. Weaver says. Chronic diseases, such as hypertension, among aging baby boomers make the timing and impact significant, she says. Study participants don’t have to have a computer; study coordinators will help those who don’t find where they can use one. However one of the many questions being asked is whether or not having a computer affects use of the electronic personal health record. They will learn how to use the electronic record then have follow up visits at three, six and 12 months.

Individual Paulding County schools have named their Teacher of the Year award winners who will compete for the overall school district award in May. "These employees
are vital staff members who play key roles in creating a district and school environment that promotes
our district’s vision and mission," a news release stated.. ♦ School Nutrition - Amanda Hicks, nutrition manager, North Paulding High School. ♦ Maintenance, Operations, and Facilities - Joel Davis, locksmith. ♦ School Support Services - Melanie Ackerson, secretary, North Paulding High School. ♦ School Instructional Support - Stephen Cochran, paraprofessional, P.B. ♦ District Support Services - Katie Anderson, school district fine arts coordinator.

♦ School Leadership - Tiffany Frachiseur, principal, Northside Elementary School. The Teacher of the Year program will spotlight teachers chosen by each of the district’s 33 schools for the award. The ceremony concludes after the announcement of the overall district winner, who is eligible to compete for the Georgia Teacher of the Year award. The selection process begins after profiles of the school-level winners are submitted to a committee that includes school district employees, foundation board members and community leaders, the website stated. The committee reviews each candidate’s information and selects the one winner based on their biography, nominations and other supporting references, the website stated.

♦ Abney - Katie McAllister. ♦ Allgood — Lisa Carson. ♦ Austin — Chelsea Sell. ♦ Baggett — Kristen Cook. ♦ Burnt Hickory — Alisha Collins. ♦ Dallas — Stephanie Atkinson. ♦ Dobbins — Rosemary Dixon. ♦ Dugan — Kim Leonard. ♦ East Paulding High — Barbara Miller. ♦ East Paulding Middle — Breanne Wood. ♦ Herschel Jones — Dana Head. ♦ Hiram Elementary — Beth Gandy. ♦ Hiram High — Ashley Poole. ♦ Hutchens — Marie Owen. ♦ McClure — Gretchen Curl. ♦ McGarity — Liza Norman. ♦ Moses — Scott Collier. ♦ Nebo — Andrea DeRamus. ♦ New Georgia — Michelle Raveneau. ♦ North Paulding — Master Sgt. ♦ Northside — Morgan Gordon. ♦ P.B. Ritch — Kimberly Ramsey.

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee released a transcript on Friday of congressional testimony from Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. Ohr met with members of Congress last August to discuss his role feeding the FBI information about President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign team’s ties to Russia that Ohr gathered from employees at the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. GOP Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia unsealed the transcript Friday in a speech on the House floor where he promised to release more transcripts from the joint committee probe at a later date. "People anticipate the Mueller report soon.

Will he find any so-called ‘collusion’? Or was the only ‘collusion’ among agency personnel who hated the president and started
this investigation? " Collins said in his floor speech. That congressional probe ended last year when Democrats won back a majority in the House, though Republicans have since tried to keep the pressure on the DOJ over some of its agents’ possible political bias. In the transcript, Ohr appears to have indicated to lawmakers that the information sharing between him and his wife, and him and Steele, was a one-way street. But Republicans seized on the notion that the information Ohr provided from his wife and Steele might have influenced investigatory decisions at the FBI despite the partisan tinge of that information’s origins. Fusion GPS research into Trump’s past was originally funded by a key Florida donor to Sen.

Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign. The Democratic National Committee later hired the firm to renew its research to help the 2016 campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. In 2016, Nellie Ohr handed her husband a thumb drive with her research on various Russian entities with possible ties to Trump, Bruce Ohr testified. Ohr then passed that thumb drive along to agents at the FBI who were working on the Russia investigation, since it did not fall under his purview as the DOJ’s director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Ohr also continued to have conversations with Steele, an acquaintance from before Steele was working on the Russia dossier and whom the FBI let go as a source after it learned he had shared some information with media, he testified.

] had been terminated," Ohr testified, in response to a question from
GOP Rep. Mark Meadows. "But nevertheless, when I receive information from Chris Steele I’m not going to sit on it. Ohr explained to Congress in his testimony that he made clear to the FBI that the information from Steele could not be taken at face value because it was hearsay. "That information would
never see the inside of a courtroom, because you can’t cross-examine
it. You can’t find out who, if anyone, really is the source of that.
" Gowdy asked him. "This is source information. And most FBI investigations involve source information, at least in the early stages," Ohr testified. After Ohr’s testimony last year, Democrats on the panel defended Ohr’s actions. ] off" to other FBI investigators who were working on the Trump-Russia probe because Ohr was
working elsewhere within the department, Reps. [url=https://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/ACM-Georgia-US-Benefits-EI_IE1098467.0,11_IL.12,14_IN1.htm]Elijah
Cummings[/url] and Jerrold Nadler, then the ranking
members of the committees, said in a joint statement at the time.

The last two of four final candidates for the newly established
Executive Director for Student Wellness position gave their pitches to the
Ithaca College campus community. The first two finalists presented Feb.
12 and Feb. 14. The position was created following a review of the counseling and health and wellness services on campus last November.
The goal of the position is to provide oversight of
the college’s wellness services. The third candidate for the
newly created Executive Director for Student Wellness position, Keba Rogers, gave a
presentation to the campus community Feb. 20 in Klingenstein Lounge.

Rogers is currently the director of counseling and wellness at Brearley School in New York City.

Approximately a dozen members of the community attended her presentation and the Q&A session that followed.

Rogers began by discussing some of her work in previous positions and some of the areas she felt colleges needed to address in terms of
mental health. "Historically, those are populations that you want to try to go to for small group work instead of asking them to come to you," she said.
She also talked about the importance of helping students improve their own personal self-awareness and self-management skills.
"Many folks are not fully aware of their own emotions — they really also can’t recognize their strengths, struggle with self-confidence or just as importantly self-efficacy," she said.

Rosanna Ferro, vice president for student affairs
and campus life, asked how Rogers would market the wellness services to the college
community. Rogers said it would involve working with different
constituencies on campus to bring awareness to students.
"Usually when there is a new initiative that is campus-wide, students are trying to figure out how that fits in with them," she said.
One of the audience members asked her about her thoughts on the recent external
review of the college’s health services programs.

Rogers said she wanted more information about a few different issues the report raised.
"What I’ve learned from reading a lot of executive reports is that there is always a lot more information that I don’t know," she said.
Rogers said that after visiting the counseling space,
she agreed with some of the recommendations in the
report about how the space could be used differently.

She said she has not been around the program at the college long enough to determine whether or
not she agrees with some of the recommendations about increasing staff
size. The final candidate for the Executive Director
for Student Wellness position, Suzy Harrington, gave her presentation to the community Feb.
26 in the Taughannock Falls Room. Harrington is currently the executive director of health and well-being
at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta. She cited data from Gallup, a consulting company, that suggested a sense of
purpose is the number one driver of student academic success in higher education. She
said one of the most important factors in determining individual well-being comes down to personal commitment.
"Ultimately, we are all responsible for our own health and well-being," she said.

"Our students are responsible for their own health and well-being. "The very
first priority is to put them all together so that they’re one cohesive team and not working in the traditional model of isolation and silos," she said. "Unity is
not the same as uniformity. One suggestion she gave for
how the three services could be more cohesive was having medical records shared between departments in order to increase efficiency.
She also emphasized the need for students to have easier access points
to wellness services on campus to help guide students to the services they need.
"It would be good to have a single access point that meets the needs of students and then directs them to where they need to go," she said.

In addition to increasing cohesion between the wellness services on campus,
she also said she wants to strengthen partnerships with other departments outside
of wellness on campus. Susan Bassett, associate vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics
and chair of the search committee for the new executive director position, said
she has been impressed with the finalists for the position. "I think all the candidates are great," she said.

Activities Director Tony Sorrells said that this is the first year the facility has done it and they plan on doing it next year.

The facility, which offers short-term rehabilitation,
long-term care and specialized memory care, is located at
2002 Tift Avenue. Sorrells said that they will submit
the winner to the Georgia Healthcare Association.
If selected, the winner will compete at the state level. Pageant participants were
Ann Breslin, Janice Chandler, Juanita Collins, Martiel
Dillard, Denise Fowler, Lottie Green, Naomi Lockerman Dilly Rowland, Mae Washington and Emma Wiggins.
Wiggins was crowned Miss RCSG, with Lockerman as
first runner up and Washington as second runner up.
The judges for the pageant were Linda Floyde from the
Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce, M. Jay Hall from New York Life and Collins and
Rebecca Vickers from Georgia Home Health. Flowers were provided by Murray’s Flower Gallery,
the hair and makeup were done by RCSG staff and students from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College and Emma Jackson provided entertainment.
All of the contestants were escorted by Tift County High
School ROTC cadets.

It was 12:15 p.m. The Tuesday morning t’ai chi class had
just let out, and a dozen or so adult students flowed into the community room, where natural sunlight flooded through floor-to-ceiling windows.
The students lined up at the massive island in the adjoining open kitchen to fill their plates with a lunch catered by MetroFresh.

They sat in groups of twos, threes and fours, chatting
between bites of baked herb chicken and a salad chock-full of
vegetables, sporting every color of the rainbow. You’d never guess that all of them were on a journey with cancer.
Cancer. It’s a frightening word. It’s a devastating word for those diagnosed with the disease.

And, for their loved ones, too. It can mean treatment that
includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation. As if such side effects
as fatigue, nausea and appetite loss are not enough, it can bring on anxiety, depression and mood swings.

There’s a reason why words like "battle"
and "fight" are part of the cancer lexicon. But, while cancer does bring on tears, and does sometimes result in death, there are places in Georgia free of sterile
latex gloves and white lab coats, where cancer patients go to celebrate life.
Thomas F. Chapman Family Cancer Wellness Centers
provide comprehensive cancer services and programs to those affected by cancer at
any phase in their journey.

2 million in the past six years from Karen and Tom
Chapman — the nonprofit centers provide these services free of charge to anyone in the community affected by cancer, even individuals who are not
Piedmont patients. Last year, attendance at Cancer Wellness programs exceeded
25,000 visits. When the center moved in 2009 from the hospital on Peachtree Road
to a bigger space in its current location at 1800
Howell Mill Road, Helmer queried participants about what they wanted from
the center. "The number one thing for people was nutrition," she said.
Indeed, food is a cornerstone of the center.
Step off the elevator on the seventh floor, walk past the double glass doors, and you’ll find a community space with a massive
kitchen.

It’s a space for cooking demos, and for dishing up lunch and dinner
to participants after classes. It’s also a place where
community is built. When the center’s dietitian, Shayna
Komar, isn’t providing individual nutrition counseling,
she stands in that kitchen, facilitating cooking classes to teach cancer patients and their caregivers how to prepare health-minded meals.

To teach alongside Komar, the center relies on a roster of a dozen or so chefs,
including names like Steven Satterfield of Miller Union and Jennifer
Levison of Souper Jenny. There’s also Nancy Waldeck, who has been cooking at the
center for the past 10 years, ever since she first was diagnosed with cancer and availed herself of the center’s services.
"I literally cooked my way through chemo, surgery and radiation," Waldeck said.
While Satterfield and Waldeck are both
cancer survivors, the center’s chef instructors are not solely people who have been diagnosed with cancer.

All, however, are culinarians with a passion for healthy eating and supporting a local food system.

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organizations from across Georgia. The proposed use of grants is as wide-ranging
as the geographical locations. Medical clinics and pregnancy centers often request
grants to purchase new equipment, such as an ultrasound,
for improving patient care. Other requests are for financial support to operate free clinics and provide health services for uninsured and low-income families.
Grants also go to Georgia Baptist entities such as the Georgia Baptist
Children's Homes and Family Ministries organization and Penfield Addiction Ministries, both of which provide a range
of health services to the public. Dr. J. Robert White, President and CEO of the Georgia Baptist
Healthcare Ministry Foundation.

Each September the Georgia Baptist Health Care
Ministry Foundation accepts grant proposals, which are then reviewed and selected by the foundation's board.
The awards are presented each February to the recipients.

48 million dollars through 659 grants to health care related non-profits
and programs around the state of Georgia.
Grants are provided to both religious and secular organizations to help people of Georgia receive needed care.
Impact of the grants include over 19,000 pregnancies carried
to term, over 18,000 professions of faith, and almost
3.5 million lives positively affected. Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation, Inc.
(GBHCMF) is a charitable institution that assists Georgia communities and others with health care related programs.
Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation, Inc.

was formerly known as Georgia Baptist Health Care System,
Inc. The institution was originally founded in 1901 in Atlanta.

125M endowment that funds the charitable programs.

GBHCMF is based in Duluth, Georgia.

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