Medical

When you’re in business, you often roll with the punches. If employees call in sick, you cover their shifts. When inventory doesn’t arrive, you hustle to find another source. Time overruns on a job? You tighten up and meet the deadline. Life is like that too, only the stakes are higher when you are dealing with a life-threatening disease. Whitney O’Connor didn’t plan to get breast cancer six weeks after she got married and one week after celebrating her 30th birthday. She also didn’t plan a diagnosis of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome,

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll helped a local assisted living and memory care community celebrate its third anniversary Friday. Thrive at Augusta, a more than 62,000-square-foot facility located at 313 Furys Ferry Road in Martinez, opened its doors in Sept. 2019, which was just six months before the pandemic began. Like most businesses, covid forced Thrive to make major changes. With its older, more vulnerable population, the community needed to be especially careful to protect its residents. “The National Guard helped us with sanitation, cleanliness, and testing,” said community

Business owners are often so busy managing their business that they don’t prioritize their own health. But a new urgent care clinic coming to Columbia County may be able to help. Perfect Health is opening another CSRA location at 229 South Belair Road, according to its owner, Dr. Troy Coon. The clinic, which was designed by the Augusta-based firm, Virgo Gambill Architects, is being built by Allen+Batchelor Construction. Perfect Health treats a variety of conditions and offers many services, including labs, X-rays, and medical weight loss. The company currently has

Chiropractor Jason Rueggeberg remembers the day one of his employees had a severe anxiety attack at work. She had been diagnosed with a heart condition and considered going to the ER. Instead, she went to her Physician Assistant’s office. The Physician Assistant performed an EKG and told her to go home and rest, instead of going to the ER. That office visit saved her thousands of dollars. Rueggeberg, a chiropractor at Evans Sport and Spine Chiropractic Center, currently has a membership with Welcome Health, a new direct primary care practice

Much like churches, there seems to be a CBD store on every corner. But Stephanie Carter didn’t want to open just another CBD store, so her business offers many other products and services. Carter launched Purple Bloomz located at 4158 Washington Road, Suite 3 in Evans on Friday, Aug. 12. Like other such local businesses, she offers a variety of CBD products designed to ease stress, depression, and anxiety, among other common ailments. Some products contain THC, while others don’t. One product Carter sells is THC-O, a strong THC product

Doctors Hospital will have an easier time getting the blood it needs, thanks to a blood bank coming to Augusta. The Blood Connection, a non-profit organization that supplies blood to Doctors, plans to open a new donation center less than a mile from the hospital at 3156 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 201. For hospitals, maintaining a steady blood supply is critical, as it’s often needed for surgical patients, accident victims, and other medical necessities. The center will be TBC’s second Georgia facility; the other is in Savannah. The nonprofit, which was

Augusta University Health was one of only eight Georgia hospitals found to be compliant with a national price transparency law in a survey reported by PatientRightsAdvocate.org. A national law enacted on Jan. 1, 2021, requires hospitals to list prices as a single machine-readable standard charges file and to include a standard charges display with actual prices or a price estimator tool for the 300 most common shoppable services. The rule is intended to provide consumers and employers broad access to pricing information, empowering them to benefit from competition and drive

If you’ve ever been to a doctor or been hospitalized, you understand the need for a good nurse. Someone who checks your vital signs, performs lab work, or maybe holds your hand and tells you everything will be all right. Aiken Technical College trains students to provide those skills and much more. A recent $4,000 donation from the Aiken Chapter of Mended Hearts will provide equipment including teaching stethoscopes and an EKG simulator for hands-on training. This is not the first time the group, consisting of former heart patients, has

Doctor’s Hospital in Augusta has tapped Joanna Conley as the CEO of the HCA-owned facility. Conley has served in healthcare and leadership roles with HCA in Nashville and Kissimmee, Fla., prior to assuming her role in Augusta. She holds a B.S. Degree in Public Health, Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management. Conley is also a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She assumes the role following the retirement of CEO,