Medical

Laurie Ott’s fourth leadership position in her impressive 30-year CSRA career may be her most challenging. She’s playing catch up with the influx of businesses and employees moving to the Peach State.  For 11 straight years, a trade publication voted Georgia the top-ranked state to do business. However, there is a major impact on additional employees and families moving here. “We need 1,500 more nurses in the CSRA,” she said Friday at the 2nd Annual Columbia County School District Career Health Expo. Ott says there is also a huge statewide

It’s taken seven years from the time the Georgia legislature created the Access to Medical Cannabis Commission for medical THC to be sold at an independent pharmacy in Augusta. Living Well Pharmacy, 3736 Mike Padgett Highway, is the first. Part of the holdup was that the licenses were granted only to authorized dispensaries or independent pharmacies. When Vic Johnson started as a pharmacist 40 years ago in Richmond County, there were 25 independent pharmacies, now, there are only four. “There were hoops to jump through. We just got licensed in