Statesboro Magazine Nov/Dec 2014

S o u th e r n M a n o r Retirement Inn Announces Expansion

EGSC - S tat e s b Open House

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Join Bob for a fun day of interactive activities and raffle prizes as we share with you what makes EGSC Great!

Date: Friday, November 14 Time: 1:00-4:00 PM Location: EGSC-Statesboro 10449 US Highway 301 S What to expect: • Visit at least 7 activity stations to be entered into a drawing for multiple raffle prizes including a tablet!

• Stations will include exciting mini-lectures, speaking with current students, academic mind games, discussing majors with advisors, making your own stress ball and more!

• The COMPASS test will be offered for free from 9 AM to 12 PM (sign up for this separately in EventBrite).

• Application fees will be waived for those who choose to apply at open house!

• Sign-up and then drop in anytime as activities will run from 1-4 PM.

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Southern Manor is excited to announce a facility expansion. The new addition, opening November 2014, will add bedrooms to the existing building and feature the Mansion on Fair, the new dementia care center. Due to increased demand from the community and seeking to provide a higher level of care, Southern Manor Retirement Inn will remodel 12 existing rooms, the activities center, and dining room to become the Mansion on Fair. In addition, the room count will grow from 34 to 46 total rooms and will be designed to meet the needs of residents in a comfortable and family-like environment. Southern Manor Retirement Inn is locally owned and operated by Ralph Cowart and Allen Skipper, FNP. Cowart is the only dually national board certified assisted living administrator in the state of Georgia.

For a tour of the new facility, please call (912) 681-2686.

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Form Critical Care Alliance

East Georgia Regional Medical Center (EGRMC) and Emory University today announced they will bring the region’s most skilled intensive care to Statesboro’s patients via telemedicine. The collaboration is part of a $10.7 million dollar award from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center to Emory University’s Center for Critical Care for its project “Rapid Training and Deployment of Non-Physician Providers in Critical Care.”

Over a year ago, Emory and EGRMC started planning the project. EGRMC’s ICU Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, April Hargett, went to Emory for six months’ advanced training in critical care. Meanwhile, Emory and EGRMC began installing dedicated, private data services that will carry medical, monitor, and laboratory data as well as provide secure high-definition audio-video connections into each patient’s room in EGRMC’s ICU.

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Names New REACH Scholars

Bulloch County Schools (BCS) named five new REACH scholars Sept. 12th. Chosen from 66 applicants, the eighth-grade scholars, along with their families, participated in a special signing ceremony at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 25th, prior to the Board of Education’s work session. BCS now has ten REACH scholars, who have a combined total of $200,000 available to them for their post-secondary education.

REACH Georgia is a needs-based mentoring and scholarship program designed to ensure that the state’s academically promising students have the academic, social, and financial support needed to graduate from high school and complete college. Bulloch County is one of five school systems that was initially selected by the state in 2013 to pilot and implement the program.

This year’s recipients are Destiny Hartwell, Nancy Martinez and Alberto Rodriguez of Langston Chapel Middle School, and Brian Phillips, Jr. and Michael Vescio of William James Middle School. Each will receive mentoring and coaching through middle and high school, as well as opportunities to participate in various programs that will assist them in college selection and admission.

A committee consisting of community members and central office staff reviewed this year’s applications and selected ten finalists. Then they conducted face-to-face interviews with the finalists, from whom they selected the most recent scholars.

(L-R) Langston Chapel Middle School Counselor Natasha Natson; REACH 2014 Scholars Nancy Martinez, Destiny Hartwell, and Alberto Rodriguez; LCMS Principal Evelyn B. Gamble-Hilton; and Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning Mary Felton.

(L-R) William James Middle School Principal Mike Yawn; REACH 2014 Scholars Michael Vescio and Brian Phillips, Jr.; Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning Mary Felton; and WJMS Counselor Dee Dee Thompson.

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