Hephzibah artist Ray Rayburn and his shop, Custom Concepts, have volunteered to take on the restoration of the nearly 40-year-old Nativity figures at no cost to the Trinity Hospital.
By Steve Crawford | Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
The life-size Nativity scene at Trinity Hospital has been a Christmas tradition almost as long as the hospital has existed.
By Steve Crawford | Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011
Less than 65 percent of health care workers and less than half of pregnant women got a flu shot last season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
By Tom Corwin | Friday, Aug 19, 2011
Births are mostly down this year in Augusta and have been declining nationwide the last three years.
By Tom Corwin | Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Whatever happens to the leadership of Congress in today's election, health care changes will come to Augusta simply because they must, Augusta health leaders said Monday.
By Tom Corwin | Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010
Augusta hospital leaders have been meeting about how to create a system for exchanging electronic health records.
By Tom Corwin | Friday, July 23, 2010
Carolyn Crawford still remembers the wire poking into her right ankle and leaving a tiny hole, even though that was a long, long time ago. That tiny hole grew to be a gaping wound a couple of ...
By Tom Corwin | Wednesday, June 2, 2010
University Hospital will be among the facilities fighting a fee proposal by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to plug a shortfall in Medicaid.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010
About 100,000 doses of injectable vaccine against the novel influenza A H1N1 virus went out to Georgia hospitals, with some scheduled to begin giving shots Wednesday, while another 100,000 doses ...
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
The company that runs Medical College of Georgia Hospital is extending its flu shot coverage beyond its employees and physicians -- it is taking in the children.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
Her dizziness and nausea don't feel minor, but LaShonda Martin was glad they landed her in a new minor treatment area of the emergency department of University Hospital.
By Tom Corwin | Saturday, Aug 29, 2009
Trinity Hospital of Augusta will be getting the long-sought ability to perform certain heart procedures, but Doctors Hospital won't. At least not yet, though that could change soon, Doctors CEO ...
By Tom Corwin | Wednesday, July 22, 2009
University Hospital believes it is tops in quality and is reshaping its Web site to prove it.
By Tom Corwin | Friday, May 29, 2009
Cranes have been a common sight in recent years in Augusta's central medical district as University Hospital and Medical College of Georgia and its health system embarked on nearly $500 million in ...
By Tom Corwin | Sunday, April 12, 2009
Health care construction in Augusta remains strong, with some projects starting even as others finish.
By Tom Corwin | Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008
An unwanted annual visitor is back.
By Tom Corwin | Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008
University Hospital is looking to snuff out tobacco on its grounds. And that has some dreaming of a city where tobacco is prohibited.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
The group representing the Medical College of Georgia's physicians wants to build a $34 million surgery and imaging center in Columbia County, but it is facing strenuous objections from other ...
By Tom Corwin | Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008
Limiting the march of antibiotic-resistant bacteria into the hospital is a growing focus of hospitals across the country and in Augusta.
By Tom Corwin | Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The difference in a year at Trinity Hospital of Augusta, Allan Joseph noticed, is a physician can see a dingy wall, call the administration and see someone painting it hours later. It is in a new ...
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, April 24, 2008
