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NEWS RELEASE
April 14, 2008
New leader of Jack Hughston Memorial charged with turning the former Summit Hospital around.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/102/story/295086.html
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April 7, 2008
Heading to the hospital can be a scary time and Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital hopes to calm fears with a smile.
http://www.wrbl.com/index.php/news/article/phenix-city-hospital-employees-train-in-customer-service/10463/
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March 21, 2008
Hospital Member to Speak at the Georgia Society for Hospital Engineers Annual Meeting
Mark (Smitty) Smith, SASHE, CHFM, CHSP, Director of Facility Services at Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital , has been invited to speak at the Georgia Society for Hospital Engineers 44th Annual Meeting and Technical Exhibition in Savannah , GA from June 4-6 2008.
Smith has over 26 years of experience in the healthcare engineering field. Mark was re-elected as the Region 4 Director to the 2007 - 2008 Board of Directors of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). Region 4 consists includes Alabama , Georgia , Mississippi , Florida , and the Caribbean .
Smith was an active board member of the GSHE since 1999 and elected president in 2001. He was selected as the GSHE Engineer of the Year in 2000 and was a recipient of the Emerging Leader award from American Society for Healthcare Engineers (ASHE) in 2004. Smith serves on the Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM) Certification Program Committee of the American Hospital Association. JHMH is proud to have such an accomplished leader in his field as part of our team.
Located in Phenix City , Alabama , Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital is an 110,000-square-foot facility with 62 private patient rooms. Opened in August 2006, the facility is a general acute care hospital providing a wide array of services such as outpatient, endoscopic and orthopaedic surgery; and a full array of diagnostic imaging including MRI, nuclear medicine and a 64-Slice CT Scanner, one of the few scanners of its kind in the region. The fourth floor contains the Hughston Orthopaedic Center , a facility dedicated to the care of joint and spine surgery patients. The hospital also features wireless Internet access, private rooms, a dining facility with outdoor terrace, and easy parking. The hospital received a National Pyramid Award in 2006 from the Associated Builders & Contractors for excellence in design and construction of a healthcare facility.
For more information about Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital , its services or its people, please call 334-732-3015.
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February 14, 2008
Surgeons at The Hughston Clinic Acquire Summit Hospital
Columbus, Ga. (Feb. 14, 2007) — Surgeons at The Hughston Clinic, P.C., a well-respected orthopaedic practice based in Columbus, Ga., announced today that they have acquired Summit Hospital in Phenix City, Ala., from Ameris Health Systems, LLC. The seven surgeons are Carlton G. Savory, M.D., James E. McGrory, M.D., Lyle A. Norwood, M.D., Patrick J. Fernicola, M.D., Thomas N. Bernard, Jr., M.D., Glenn C. Terry, M.D., and J. Kenneth Burkus, M.D.
“Through this acquisition, we are extremely excited about the future opportunities that lie ahead for our patients and the community,” said Carlton G. Savory, M.D, an Orthopaedic Surgeon at The Hughston Clinic. “We have desired a relationship with a hospital where we can make managerial decisions to better serve the needs of our patients. This is an exciting time for Hughston and the community. Welcome to a new era of health care in the Chattahoochee Valley.”
To honor Dr. Jack C. Hughston, the founder of The Hughston Clinic in 1949, the surgeons have renamed the hospital the Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital.
“It's a great tribute to honor Dr. Hughston by naming the hospital for him,” said Savory, who will serve as Chairman of the Board of Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital. “Dr. Hughston was a true pioneer of orthopaedics and will always be an inspiration to us all. The mission of the Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital will always be to provide the highest quality medical care to the residents in the Chattahoochee Valley region.”
The Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital provides the Hughston doctors with another conveniently located facility where they can perform surgeries and other procedures. The main campus of The Hughston Clinic will remain in Columbus at 6262 Veterans Parkway and will continue to serve patients from Columbus and around the region as it has for nearly 60 years. The Hughston Clinic consists of 18 orthopaedic surgeons who treat thousands of patients annually at nine facilities in the Southeast.
“We are very excited about the potential of the Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital,” said Mark Baker, COO of The Hughston Clinic. “The purchase of the hospital is consistent with The Hughston Clinic's expansion objectives and strategic plan. The Clinic is growing and expanding in markets throughout the Southeast. Over the past five years Hughston has invested millions of dollars to upgrade technology and renovate facilities with the ultimate goal of creating a more efficient and quality experience for our patients. The Hughston Clinic has always been on the cutting edge of innovation, education and patient care, and that will never change.”
The surgeons have hired James L. Matney to serve as CEO of Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital. Matney has 24 years of experience in hospital administration and last served as CEO of Valley View Medical Center, a 60-bed hospital in Bullhead City, AZ.
Located in Phenix City, Ala., the Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital is an 110,000-square-foot facility with 62 private patient rooms. Opened in August 2006, the facility is a general hospital providing a wide array of services such as a Surgery Department with outpatient, endoscopy and orthopaedics; and a Diagnostic Imaging Department with ultrasound, MRI and 64-Slice CT Scanner, one of the few scanners of its kind in the region. The hospital features wireless Internet access, 27-inch flat screen televisions in each patient room, a dining hall with outdoor terrace, and floor-to-ceiling windows providing natural light. The hospital received a National Pyramid Award in 2006 from the Associated Builders & Contractors for excellence in design and construction of a healthcare facility.
ABOUT THE HUGHSTON CLINIC
Based in Columbus, Ga., The Hughston Clinic (www.hughston.com) is a full-service orthopaedic practice with nine offices in Georgia and Alabama. Founded in 1949 by Dr. Jack C. Hughston, The Hughston Clinic is a nationally and internationally recognized center of excellence for research, education, training, and the quality treatment of musculoskeletal injury and disease. Other facilities and services located on the campus of The Hughston Clinic in Columbus include The Hughston Foundation Inc., the Hughston Health Center, Hughston Rehabilitation, and Hughston Diagnostics.
Contact:
John Carroll, 706-332-5926
Carroll Communications Inc.
jkcarroll@knology.net
Mark Baker, 706-494-3265
The Hughston Clinic, P.C.
mbaker@hughston.com
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February 09, 2008
Symposium Showcases Advances in Sports Medicine
BY BORDEN BLACK --
Special to the Ledger-Enquirer
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Dr. Dave Clark, an orthopedic surgeon from Alabama, recalled that while working as an Army surgeon in Heidelberg, Germany, years ago he needed a special tool and ended up buying a drill at the hardware store. The equipment, the techniques and the necessary skills for orthopedic surgery have changed a lot since then. More than a hundred doctors from three states took the opportunity Feb. 1-2 to learn about the latest methods and tools available to benefit their patients.
The First Annual Georgia-Alabama Sports Medicine Symposium was part of the Hughston Foundation's goal of providing education and research, according to Dr. Champ Baker, one of the conference's organizers.
"It introduces the doctors to techniques and shows them how to do procedures," he said.
One of the procedures attracting a lot of attention on the first day was a minimally invasive repair of the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament.) It is the second-most commonly injured knee ligament and is frequently damaged by athletes. Dr. Fred Flandry, of the Hughston Clinic, said the new technique for all-inside-repair, is one of the most minimally invasive.
"We used to make incisions. Now we are finding ways to drill tunnels and pass graphs through some puncture areas," he explained.
Flandry added that The Hughston Clinic has been pioneering such techniques as far back as the 1980s. "What were already minimally invasive arthroscopic procedures... we are making them even more minimally invasive."
The objective he said is quicker recovery, less pain and less hospitalization for the patient.
"Dr. Hughston always wanted this foundation to be a think tank, where ideas could be disseminated and people in the region, nationally and internationally could come to learn," Flandry said.
One of the attendees, Dr. Chris Piller of Rome Georgia agreed that such symposiums help doctors learn new methods, reinforce ideas and procedures they have already learned and get ideas from other doctors. "It's all about trying to stay on the cutting edge," he explained.
That's important at the rate Orthopedic Surgery is developing. Flandry said. "If you haven't seen what's out there in the last few months you're behind."
Four hundred new products for orthopedic surgery were put on the market last year alone, Flandry said. Surgeons come up with ideas of what they would like to see in instruments and then engineers at companies like Arthrex, which sponsored the symposium, develop the tools. Doctors with Arthrex demonstrate how to use them at the company's facility in Naples, Fla., or during symposiums like the one held at the Hughston Foundation.
"At things like this you pick up tips and tricks that may help with something you are already doing," said Dr. Randy Schwartzberg, who works with Arthrex.
That's what many of the doctors did between lectures practicing their skills on artificial joints set up in the conference area. "The innovative design of instruments provides better outcomes for patients," said Dr. James Guerra.
"There is no substitute for practice," he said.
In addition to practicing, the doctors watched live demonstrations performed on cadavers which were broadcast from an operating room into the auditorium.
"It wasn't too long ago that if you tore a shoulder you were gone. Now it can be fixed," Baker pointed out. "Surgeons are more skilled today and they have the advantage of these newer technologies."
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