About The Georgia post. (Knoxville, Crawford County, Ga.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 2013)
d<m Jmii Load your unwanted treasures into the trunk sell them in the parking lot at Peach Shops Saturday, July 27th... ICU Ministry Meets July 25th atthe Byron Depots 8 a.m. -2 p.m. ^ M interested in volunteering or donating suDpfex^lFPara^MPl 560^ The Byron CebbUD Covering Byron & Peach County email: byronbuzz@pstel.net Thursday, July 25, 2013 The 2013-2014 Executive Board for Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes from left, Sheriff Lewis Walker - Crawford County, Secretary/Treasurer; Sheriff Donald Craig - Pickens County, 1st Vice President; Sheriff Stacy Jarrard - Lumpkin County, 2nd Vice President; and Sheriff Terry Deese - Peach County, President. Hitchcock Addresses Healthcare Alliance Includes MCPC Club About RYLA Lauren Hitchcock of Byron spoke last week to the Rotary Club of Byron about her visit to RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). Lauren will be a junior at Peach County High School this fall. (RYLA) is Rotary’s leadership training program for young people. Core curriculum at RYLA covers the following topics: - Fundamentals of leadership - Ethics of positive leadership - Importance of communication skills in effective leadership - Problem solving and conflict management - What Rotary is and what it does for the community - Building self-confidence and self-esteem - Elements of community and global citizenship Hospital and health System CEOs from central and south Georgia announced their plans to participate in a newly formed alliance which will create one of the nation’s largest collaborations of hospitals, healthcare systems and physicians aligned to develop a clinically-integrated network. The alliance, to be called Stratus Healthcare, consists of 23 hos pitals and approximately 1500 physicians. Stratus, a non-equity partnership at the outset, expects to form a non-profit limited liability corporation, pooling both human capital and financial resources to meet its mission and vision. Members of Stratus Healthcare will work together in a formalized partnership to exchange best practices, combine resources, develop coordinated information systems, reduce costs and manage the health of popula tions. Member hospitals will take advantage of a shared services model, yet remain independent. Central Georgia Health System (CGHS) in Macon. Ga. and Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) in Tifton, Ga. first announced a partnership in April 2012, and respective presidents/CEOs Dr. Ninfa Saunders and William T. Richardson have worked pur posely since October to develop the partnership framework and recruit members for the alliance. Saunders and Richardson said that Stratus Healthcare partners share a common vision for the future and the affiliation provides an alternative to mergers and acquisitions. Stratus Healthcare will consist of the following member hospi tals and respective medical staff: • Bleckley Memorial Hospital (Cochran) • Central Georgia Health System • Medical Center of Central Georgia (Macon) • Central Georgia Rehabilitation Hospital (Macon) • Medical Center of Peach Coun ty (Byron) • Coffee Regional Medical Center (Douglas) • Columbus Regional Health System • Columbus Regional Medical Center (Columbus) • Doctors Hospital (Columbus) • Hughston Hospital (Columbus) • Crisp Regional Hospital (Cordele) • Dodge County Hospital (Eastman) • Houston Healthcare • Houston Medical Center (Warner Robins) • Perry Hospital (Perry) • Jasper Memorial Hospital (Monticello) • Oconee Regional Medical Center (Milledgeville) • Putnam General Hospital (Eatonton) • South Georgia Medical Center Health System • South Georgia Medical Center (Valdosta) • Smith Northview Hospital (Valdo sta) • Louis Smith Memorial Hospital (Lakeland) • Clinch Memorial Hospital (Homerville) • SGMC-Berrien Campus (Nashville) • Taylor Regional Hospital (Hawkinsville) • Tift Regional Health System • Tift Regional Medical Center (Tifton) • Cook Medical Center (Adel) In the future, primary care doc tors and specialists will need to work closer together on a region al scale to develop clinical guide lines and the sharing of outcomes data. The timely exchange of electronic patient information is becoming increasingly important to improve quality and prevent duplication or over-utilization of healthcare services. Stratus will coordinate and support physi cians in this endeavor. “Federal healthcare reform will require that medical care be reimbursed based on a fee-for- value framework rather than the fee-for-service model used in the past,” said Saunders. “Stratus Healthcare will create the deliv ery model for this transforma tion.” Saunders said that forming a collaborative partnership sets the stage for innovation in the chang ing healthcare climate. She added that Stratus will serve as a vehicle to keep health care local with the goal to improve outcomes, en hance the patient experience and increase efficiency as required by health care reform. “It’s about the right care, the right access at the right cost,” said Saunders. “Initially, the Stratus Healthcare work groups will explore primary care, emergency medicine, hospitalist and special ty care networks to include the development of clinical guide lines, telemedicine connections, transfer arrangements and the sharing of outcomes data. Work groups will examine collective purchasing, an integrated clinical network and shared business resources.” For more information, visit www.stratushealthcare.org. GSYH - Helping one child at a time PC Sheriff Deese Serves As President By Victoria Simmons The Byron Buzz ”We might not be able to help ALL of the neglected children at ONE time, but we can help them one child at a time,” stated Peach County Sheriff Deese about the Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes. Deese is president of the Executive Board for 2013- 2014. He says the Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes is a great program that has improved the lives of many young people over the past 52 years. ’’There is some mi scon - ception about the Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes (GSYH). Many people see the words, Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Homes, and think that the youth homes is some type of Boot Camp for juvenile delinquents,” Deese said. ’’This couldn’t be farther from the truth. Several South Georgia Sheriffs got together back in the late 1950’s and had a concern for the state’s needy children. The sheriffs began planning for a secure, loving home for the abused, neglected and abandoned children of our state,” the sheriff explained. The first six boys arrived at the Boy’s Ranch in Hahira, Georgia on March 3, 1961. The Boy’s Ranch began with one home and now consists of four cottages serving both boys and girls. The campus also includes a multi-purpose building with a gymnasium, kitchen, dining room and a chapel. GSYH has grown into five separate campuses scattered across the state: Pineland and Camp Pioneer in La- Grange, Mountain View in Chatsworth, Cherokee Estates in Dalton and Her rington Homestead near Swainsboro. As times have changed, Deese said the GSYH has grown and adapted to meet the needs during these very trying times. ’’But the commitment and dedica tion to Georgia’s needy and neglected children has never changed. We remain com mitted by investing in our children, who are also the future of our Nation.” Deese emphatically stated that this program is not ’’funded by your tax dollars but is funded through your heart.” The GSYH has fund raisers sponsored by the sheriffs of Georgia and the sheriffs serve on its board. So, during the funding drives, if con tacted and you donate, you are indirectly helping change a life. For more information about the GSYH, contact Sheriff Deese or go to their website. Facade Grant awarded Bryan Price, owner of UltraClean which will be located at the corner of Main Street and Highway 49 in Byron, is holding a check from Byron Main Street. Byron Main Street issued a Fagade Grant check to Bryan for $1,439.18 for fa- gade enhancements to his building. UltraClean offers com mercial and residential cleaning services. They are licensed, bonded and insured. Call 478-733-6842 or visit http:// ultraclean.us.com to see what they have to offer. The Byron Main Street Program has revamped its fagade grant applica tion and offers a 50/50 match grant up to $2,500.00 dollars to business who qualify and apply. If you would like more information about the Byron Main Street Facade Program, contact Tiffany Peavy at 478-956-5109.
