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Betty Byrd, center, was presented the Home of the Month award by Keep Warner
Robins Beautiful recently. Also pictured are KWRB members Terry Duernberger and
Jack Steed.
Health department awards grants
Special to the Journal
In an effort to further
increase access to care in
rural areas, Dr. Rhonda
Medows, Commissioner of
the Georgia Department
of Community Health,
announced this past week
$1.5 million in grants to six
regional community groups.
The grants, accord
ing to a release, will help
strengthen Georgia’s Rural
Health Safety Net Program
and solidify the program’s
goals of maintaining itself
as a self-sustaining system,
lead to improved health sta
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economy.
Houston, Bibb, Crawford,
Jones, Monroe, Peach and
Twiggs Counties will ben
efit.
“The grant recipients have
met the challenge of pro
viding a regional approach
to healthcare with a vari
ety of innovative ideas,”
said Medows. “Through
the grant process, DCH is
able to reward groups like
these with grant money that
helps them to better serve
Georgia’s citizens in the
areas that need it most.”
The DCH State Office of
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Rural Health administers
the funding for the RHSN
Program. The RHSN pro
gram will provide finan
cial and technical support
to the grantees to collab
oratively design and imple
ment a working plan that
increases access to physical
health, prevention servic
es, behavioral health, etc.;
moves towards consumer
driven health care; encour
ages a regional approach to
services so that providers
are more financially stable;
and uses medical technology
to improve health outcomes
and improve efficiency.
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General who oversaw Joint
Stars transition to retire
Special to the Journal
Gov. Sonny Perdue recently
announced the retirement of
Lt. Gen. David B. Poythress,
Georgia’s adjutant general,
from the National Guard
and the military. Poythress
oversaw the transition of the
116th Air Control Wing at
Robins Air Force Base to a
Joint Stars unit and the only
Air Force total-force blended
wing.
He has led the Georgia
Department of Defense
and the National Guard
since 1999, will retire in
November, capping a 44-year
military career.
Under his leadership, the
Department of Defense was
the first state agency to
receive the Oglethorpe Award
for performance excellence.
He will enter private busi
ness as the Chief Executive
Officer of American United
Bancorp, Inc., in Gwinnett
County.
Perdue named Maj. Gen.
William T. Nesbitt as the
replacement for Poythress.
Nesbitt commanded the
Joint Task Force GB, a task
force of more than 7,000
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Gov. Sonny Perdue announced this week that Lt. Gen.
David B. Poythress, Georgia’s adjutant general, left,
would be retiring. Poythress helped oversee the transi
tion of the 11Gth Air Control Wing unit to Robins Air Force
Base.
personnel from all services
to conduct military support
operations for the Group of
Eight Summit at Sea Island
in June 2004. General Nesbitt
org.
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