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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2014
Emory Johns Creek hailed for patient care From staff reports
It has been an exciting year at Emory Johns Creek Hospital, which is located on Hospital Parkway in the heart of Johns Creek. The 110-bed acute care facility has expanded services and opened new centers, providing greater care for its patients and families. It has also received a variety of recognitions and awards for its successes and achievements in exceptional patient care. Since its opening in 2007, Emory Johns Creek Hospital has established an outstanding reputation as a quality health care provider, delivering community-based health care to a rapidly growing and diverse segment of metropolitan Atlanta. In 2010, Emory Healthcare became the sole owner of the facility. The hospital offers a range of services including emergency care, advanced digital imaging, a birthing center with a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, adult intensive care, women’s services, cardiology, surgery, oncology and a bariatric center. Some new and expanded services are being offered at the hospital: • As of February, the Emory Women’s Heart Center has a location at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. The center is dedicated to screening for, preventing and treating heart disease in women, while providing comprehensive cardiac risk assessment and screenings for patients at risk of heart disease. It also provides a full range
of treatment options for women diagnosed with heart disease. • Following the opening of the Emory Women’s Heart Center at Emory Johns Creek, the hospital received the Get with the Guidelines Stroke GoldPlus quality achievement award. The recognition highlights hospitals that have implemented specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for the treatment of stroke patients. • Also in February, the Georgia Hospital Association named Emory Johns Creek Hospital to its Partnership for Health and Accountability Core Measures Honor Roll for the fifth consecutive year. The hospital is one of 24 Georgia hospitals to be placed in the chairman’s category, the highest on the list. The honor roll is based on clinical data provided by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, which admini s t e r s t h e n a t i o n ’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. • In January, Emory Johns Creek Hospital r e c e ive d C h e s t Pa i n Center Accreditation with PCI from the S o c i e t y o f Cardiovascular Patient Care. Hospitals that receive SCPC accreditat i o n m e e t o r ex c e e d quality-of-care measures in patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack. • Emory Johns Creek Hospital has partnered with Emory’s Winship
Contact For more information, or to find an Emory Johns Creek physician, call (678) 474-8200 or visit emoryjohnscreek. com.
Cancer Institute and Emory University Hospital Midtown to open a dedicated infusion center. Beginning in January, the hospital offers a full range of outpatient infusion and injection services to patients. The 4,500-square-foot, $1 million center, located in a larger space on the first floor of the Physicians Plaza, officially opened Dec. 1. The center has 19 chairs for infusion services, up from six chairs when the center opened in 2012. • As of November, Emory Orthopaedics, Spine and Sports Medicine expanded its services to the Johns Creek and Duluth areas. Emory Orthopaedics acquired Sports Medicine of Gwinnett i n D u l u t h , a p r iva t e practice led by T. Scott Maughon, and Mathew Pombo. Both physicians have long-standing relationships within the community. A new Johns Creek clinic is led by physicians Kyle Hammond, and Oluseun Olufade, and is located in the Emory Johns Creek Physicians Plaza, which is connected to the hospital. These four new physicians offer services to treat a variety of sports medicine and orthopaedic injuries and conditions. • The Center for Breast
Niki Watkins Owner of Cumming Dance Academy “My girls have been dancing here for eight years and Niki is family. She’s a great role model. She gives back to the community. She hires staff who are all very positive, and I only have wonderful things to say about Niki and all of her staff.” — Carol Joninas, mother of Ava and Emma, who attend Cumming Dance Academy Niki Watkins has been dancing since she was a toddler and today shares her lifelong love of the art with hundreds of Forsyth County students. A native of south Georgia who holds a bachelor’s degree in dance and musical theater, Watkins opened Cumming Dance Academy in 2003. “I ran a studio in Valdosta for about five years and then when I moved up here, we started out with a one-room studio,” she said. “We then expanded and I built my own facility in 2006.” Not long afterwards, the business again needCare at Emory Johns Creek Hospital held its official grand opening in September. The specialty center is designed to prov i d e wo m e n a m o r e streamlined and stressfree environment and better access to breast care. • In June, Emory Johns Creek Hospital received the American Heart
Crystal Ledford Forsyth County News
Niki Watkins owns Cumming Dance Academy in Forsyth County.
ed more room, so Watkins was able to return to a facility next door to her original site and open Cumming Dance Academy II. The two facilities are just minutes apart from each other on Tribble Gap Road. Between them, Watkins and her staff have six studio spaces in which they teach hundreds of dance classes in several different styles each week. Watkins said she believes dance is a great way for young girls to learn a lot of life lessons. “I think it just teaches them confidence and they get performance skills and it gives them an outlet for movement,” Association Mission: Lifeline Bronze Recognition award for achieving high standards in STEMI heart attack care for 2012. • In May 2013, The Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons granted a threeyear accreditation with Silver Commendation to the cancer program at
she said. “It gives them something to do and we just really pride ourselves in building character in the girls. That’s our goal along with teaching dance.” Watkins, who is married to Lee Watkins, added that her students are like her own children in many ways. “I have a little boy, Cash, at home, but then I also have all these girls here,” she said. “I love to share my love of dance with everybody and I especially love watching them come out of their shell and grow their confidence.” — Crystal Ledford
Emory Johns Creek Hospital, signifying the “Hallmark of Excellence” in cancer care programs. To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet 34 CoC quality care standards and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.
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