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Archbold Medical Center held their third annual Physician Awards Banquet on March 22nd at Glen Arven Country Club. Award winners were nominated and chosen by their medical staff peers for the categories of outstanding community benefit, leadership and patient advocacy. Additionally, hospital staff nominated and voted on People's Choice Award winners, awards presented to a physician at each Archbold hospital. Quitman family medicine physician, Frantz Felix, MD, was named by his medical...

Archbold Medical Center held their third annual Physician Awards Banquet on March 22nd at Glen Arven Country Club. Award winners were nominated and chosen by their medical staff peers for the categories of outstanding community benefit, leadership and patient advocacy. Additionally, hospital staff nominated and voted on People's Choice Award winners, awards presented to a physician at each Archbold hospital. Camilla family medicine physician, Stephen Rubendall, MD, was named by his...

Archbold Medical Center held their third annual Physician Awards Banquet on March 22nd at Glen Arven Country Club. Award winners were nominated and chosen by their medical staff peers for the categories of outstanding community benefit, leadership and patient advocacy. Additionally, hospital staff nominated and voted on People's Choice Award winners, awards presented to a physician at each Archbold hospital. Cairo general surgeon, Ronald Atwater, MD, was named by his medical staff...

Archbold Medical Center held their third annual Physician Awards Banquet on March 22nd at Glen Arven Country Club. Award winners were nominated and chosen by their medical staff peers for the categories of outstanding community benefit, leadership and patient advocacy. Additionally, hospital staff nominated and voted on People's Choice Award winners, awards presented to a physician at each Archbold hospital. Archbold Physician Award winners include: ·Pediatrician Amy Cooper,...

Kristen B. Nava, MD, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise physiology from The Florida State University and a medical degree from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten. She completed a residency in family medicine at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. Dr. Nava will be treating patients in the emergency department at Archbold’s Grady General Hospital in Cairo.

Archbold Health Services’ Hospice of Southwest Georgia held a lunch presentation for the Thomasville Alzheimer's Support Group Thursday, March 7, at the Thomas County Public Library. Attendees learned about medical and support services available for patients and their families through Hospice of Southwest Georgia.

Conyers and Ellis Recognized for Archbold Leadership Archbold recently recognized Ms. Imogene Conyers and William Ellis, MD, for their leadership and years of service as trustees of Archbold Memorial Hospital. Ms. Imogene Conyers served as a Trustee of the Archbold Memorial Hospital Board for nine years. Her most recent term ended this month. During her tenure as a trustee, Ms. Conyers held positions as Secretary of the Board, Chair of the Nominating and By-Laws Committee, and she...

Archbold Memorial Hospital recently welcomed physician assistant Asia Andrews, PA-C, MPH, and nurse practitioner Taylor Froede, FNP-C, to the medical staff. Andrews earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from University of West Georgia in Carrollton. She earned a Master of Public Health degree from Tennessee State University in Nashville and a Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in...

Archbold Home Health Announces Heart Watch Program When your heart isn’t working properly, your entire body can feel the impact. And when your heart is failing, it can be very dangerous. Especially if you aren’t aware that it's happening. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic and progressive condition that affects the pumping power of your heart muscles. While often referred to as “heart failure,” CHF specifically refers to the stage in which fluid builds up around the...

Archbold's Hospice of Southwest Georgia Encourages "Have the Conversation" Most people don't like to think about having a conversation with their loved one about hospice. But just one conversation can really help save a loved one from suffering, and provide much needed support services and relief for caregivers, too. Hospice provides essential medical care, including management of pain and symptoms, for the patient in the comfort of their home. Hospice care is covered by Medicare for...

Archbold Memorial Hospital’s Mitchell County medical facilities have won all three quarterly awards for the third quarter of 2018. Mitchell County Hospital was awarded Network Hospital of the Quarter and Emergency Department of the Quarter. Both the emergency department and the hospital itself had the highest patient satisfaction scores among Archbold’s four hospitals. Mitchell Convalescent Center was named Network Nursing Home of the Quarter. The award is presented to the Archbold...

Daniel Matta, MD, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences with a minor in biomedical physics and a Doctorate of Medicine degree, all from University of South Florida in Tampa. He completed a residency in family medicine at Bayfront Health St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a fellowship in hospitalist medicine at Central Maine Medical Center. He will be treating patients at Archbold Memorial Hospital.