Tanner Health System News
For people in the market for a job, some of the best places to work in metro Atlanta are right here in west Georgia. For a fifth time, Tanner Health System has been named one of the region’s top 10 “Best Places to Work” among large employers by the Atlanta Business Chronicle – Atlanta’s leading business publication. Tanner previously earned the distinction in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. For 2011, Tanner ranked ninth. With more than 2,500 employees, Tanner is Carroll County’s second-largest employer behind...
Bonnie Boles, MD, FCCP, with Pulmonary and Critical Care of West Georgia, is now board-certified in sleep medicine. Dr. Boles is already certified in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. In addition to serving as medical director of the intensive care unit (ICU) at Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, Dr. Boles also is medical director of the Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders in Villa Rica. She received her latest certification in sleep medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. B...
One of Carlton and Ila Crenshaw’s children recalled hearing the story. It was Jan. 29, 1933—a Sunday—and Carlton was trying to convince Ila to marry him right away. But, it being a Sunday, the courthouse was closed and the couple wouldn’t be able to get a marriage license. “So, then daddy reached in his pocket and pulled out the license. He already had it ready.” Ila didn’t put up any more argument. On Jan. 29, 2013, the couple celebrated 80 years of marriage in a conference room at Higgins General Hosp...
Tanner Medical Foundation presented the fourth annual Spirit of Giving award to Mr. Steve Adams at the annual donor appreciation luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The Spirit of Giving award honors an individual who has touched lives through the giving of both time and financial assets in support of Tanner Health System and has taken steps to ensure the tradition of philanthropy is continued by future generations. Philanthropist Steve Adams (center), pictured with Loy Howard, CEO of Tanner Health System (lef...
Higgins General Hospital in Bremen has been named one of the HealthStrong Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the nation—and was the only hospital in Georgia to make the list. Higgins General Hospital Administrator Mike Alexander accepts a 2013 HealthStrong Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals award from Greg Wolf of iVantage. “We are proud of the efforts our physicians and staff have made to help our hospital achieve this designation,” said Mike Alexander, administrator of Higgins General Hospital. “This...
Ed Hulsey of Tallapoosa was the first patient admitted to the Higgins General Hospital swing bed program. The program allows patients more time to heal and to make a smooth transition from hospital to home. Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, part of Tanner Health System, is offering a number of “swing beds” to help patients recover close to home. The program is designed for patients who require a less-intensive level of care than they received while in the hospital but who are not yet ready to leave tr...
Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner Health System, has been appointed to the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Board of Directors. As a member of the alliance’s board, Howard will share his knowledge on current issues affecting Georgia’s community not-for-profit hospitals, as state lawmakers deliberate on community benefit, hospital tax and policy issues that impact Georgians’ access to care. “This is a tremendous honor, not only for me, but for Tanner and our local community,” said Howard. “I...
Patients who turn to Tanner Health System’s emergency departments for chronic pain medications will receive help—if not a prescription—from a new pain management policy now in place. As rising levels of prescription drug abuse become a national problem and draw increasing concern from local law enforcement agencies, Tanner hopes the new policy will help both residents who may have an addiction to prescription pain medication and those who are living with untreated chronic pain. “As physicians, we’re goi...
Shazib Khawaja, MD, board-certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, endovascular medicine and vascular medicine with Tanner Heart & Vascular Specialists, part of Tanner Medical Group, and the cardiology medical operations leader for Tanner Health System, has been ranked among the top 1 percent of physicians in the nation for 2012 by U.S. News and World Report . One of America’s leading weekly news magazines, U.S. News and World Report is heralded for its valuable rankings that...
The Carroll County Schools and Tanner Health System have kicked off the second year of Tanner Connections, an initiative to give area high school students a look inside health care and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. Thirteen College and Career Academy students from Carroll County Schools will be participating in the first semester of the program this year, with more students anticipated to join the program for the second semester. Last year—the inaugural year of the program—began with eig...