January 11, 2022

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Augusta BizBitz

Here’s four quick tidbits you may not know about with CSRA businesses! University Hospital and Piedmont What ABD is hearing, is that final details are getting worked out on government regulations etc. to conclude the transaction for Piedmont to take over University Hospital and begin to pump $1 Billion into the local hospital system. The first noticeable change you’ll see is the retirement of the name “University Hospital”. The UH brand will be known as Piedmont Augusta (much like branding shown in photo) and I’m told this could happen as

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B2B Stories

Marketing and Your Brain

  Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional.   Is it just me, or… Marketing and Your Brain Don’t you hate it when something you took as gospel for a lifetime turns out not to be true? Who knew that the old chestnut of right-brain, (creative) left-brain (accountant type with pocket protector) had been discredited in this century? There just seem to be folks among us determined to take the fun out of everything. And it was such a comforting theory, too.

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Consumer Stories

Local credit union donates $60,000 to CSRA college

College is a major financial burden for many students, but a local credit union wants to help ease that burden for some CSRA college students. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Peach State Federal Credit Union has pledged to donate $60,000 to Paine College over the next five years. The college plans to use the donation to fund student scholarships. With the help of matching grants from various sources, including the Methodist Foundation and the Paine College Foundation, the donation has the potential to grow to $240,000 (see photo above), according

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B2B Stories

Meet the team at Equitable Advisors

Longtime, successful CSRA financial planner, Woody Merry brought on a new advisor in 2021. In today’s member spotlight, Neil Gordon learns she may “teach” him a thing or two, as well as the rest of us!

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