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Advocate Health Announces Division President for North Carolina and Georgia

4.21.2025

Advocate Health has named Steve Smoot, FACHE, as North Carolina and Georgia Division President effective June 2. In this role, Smoot will drive strategic priorities, operational excellence, and community engagement across North Carolina and Georgia, in alignment with the enterprise.

Atrium Health Navicent Healthy Communities to Offer Health Screenings

4.11.2025

If your New Year’s resolutions for healthier living have faded into the winter twilight, don’t worry! Spring is a great time to make a fresh start and renew your focus to prioritize your health.

Atrium Health Navicent’s Mobile Mammography Coach Takes Cancer Screenings to Women in Central and South Georgia

4.8.2025

Atrium Health Navicent’s new mobile mammography coach will be making its way throughout central and south Georgia this spring, expanding access to lifesaving cancer screenings for women. The Atrium Heath Navicent Mobile Mammography Coach is an advanced breast imaging system on wheels.

Community Plants Pinwheel Garden in Recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month

4.1.2025

Atrium Health Navicent Crescent House, a service of Atrium Health Levine Children’s Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital, joined with community partners Tuesday to plant a pinwheel garden as a visual recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheels, planted at the corner of Spring and Pine streets in front of Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, will remain on display throughout the month of April. “Children are our most valuable resource, and they also are our most vulnerable,” said Crescent House Director Kemberlie Sanderson. “All children have a right to be safe and an opportunity to grow up in an environment that fosters healthy development.

If You Were Born in 1980, it’s Time to Schedule Your First Colonoscopy

3.27.2025

If you were born in 1980, in addition to celebrating your 45th birthday, 2025 is the year doctors recommend that you should add a potentially life-saving colorectal screening to your to-do list. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time when individuals are urged to educate themselves about the disease, the third most diagnosed type of cancer, and assess their personal risk.

Atrium Health Navicent Eases Masking and Visitor Policies Amid Decline in Respiratory Illnesses

3.26.2025

After observing a steady decrease in respiratory illness cases among our patients and teammates, beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday, March 27, all Atrium Health Navicent locations are lifting temporary masking and visitor restrictions in place since January. Additionally, children 12 and under will again be able to visit area hospitals.

Atrium Health Navicent Pediatricians Urge Caregivers to be Aware of Toxic Household Items

3.19.2025

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital encourages the community to take note of potentially deadly household substances that could cause harm to children during National Poison Prevention Week, observed March 16-22, 2025. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), poisoning is the leading cause of unintentional injuryrelated deaths in the U.S.

Atrium Health Navicent Offers High School Students Opportunity to Learn About Health Careers

3.5.2025

Atrium Health Navicent is accepting applications for a program launched in 2024 that offers area high school sophomores and juniors the opportunity to shadow health care workers and receive hands-on training for health care careers. The four-week Realizing and Encouraging Adolescents to pursue Careers in Healthcare (REACH) program includes weekly professional engagement and development activities, such as medical skills simulation, educational field trips, mentoring support from leaders and education about career opportunities at Atrium Health Navient.

Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin Celebrates Ribbon Cutting for Milledgeville OB-GYN Clinic

3.4.2025

As part of Atrium Health Navicent’s commitment to improving maternal health and expanding access to quality health care, the health system is now offering obstetrics and gynecology services at a new clinic in Milledgeville. Members of the community joined Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin in celebrating the new Atrium Health Navicent Women’s Care OB/GYN Baldwin clinic with a ribbon cutting on March 5.

Atrium Health Navicent Launches New Mobile Mammography Screening Clinic

2.28.2025

Atrium Health Navicent held a ribbon cutting Thursday to celebrate a new mobile mammography coach that’s now expanding access to lifesaving cancer screenings by traveling to area workplaces, schools and more. “Taking lifesaving screening services into the community increases access, and helps ensure life — work, school, transportation or finding childcare — doesn’t prevent women from receiving a mammogram,” said Atrium Health Georgia Market President Delvecchio Finley. “The Atrium Health Navicent Mobile Mammography Coach will allow us to reach more women, detecting more cancers early when they’re easier to treat and outcomes are more favorable.” Since its debut in January, the 35-foot mobile mammography coach has already offered screening appointments and walk-up opportunities at Central Georgia Technical College, Jones County and Wilkinson County schools, and several businesses, including large industrial sites. Funded by a congressional spending allocation, the vehicle is also available to provide care at churches, neighborhoods and other convenient locations.