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Are You Prepared for Winter Weather?

1.14.2021

Navicent Health Experts Offer Tips for Families As temperatures drop, Navicent Health reminds Georgians to take the appropriate steps to prepare for winter weather. Navicent Health’s Safety, Emergency Management and Physical Environment Manager Steve Ramsey offers the following tips to ensure you and your family are prepared for inclement winter weather: Have a qualified HVAC service person check your heating system before cold weather sets in.

Collaborative Partners Offer New Virtual Option for Pediatric Patients

1.12.2021

Virtual Behavioral Healthcare Now Available to Those Younger than 18 When Charlotte-based Atrium Health and Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health announced their strategic combination in January 2019, one primary objective of the partnership was to improve the depth and breadth of services offered to healthcare consumers in the Georgia market, particularly in the area of virtual care. At that time, the two health systems announced that Atrium Health would invest capital and work with Navicent Health’s clinical experts to enhance services, particularly implementing innovative treatment models like virtual care and telepsychiatry to create the next generation of behavioral healthcare for Georgians.

Is It A Cold? Is It the Flu? Is It COVID-19?

1.11.2021

Physicians at Navicent Health Encourage New Year’s Safety

12.29.2020

physicians-at-navicent-health-encourage-new-year-s-safety From Fireworks Injuries to COVID Prevention, Celebrate Safely MACON, GA (Tuesday, December 29, 2020) – According to a report from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 7,300 people sought emergency care for injuries related to fireworks, including sparklers and bottle rockets, in 2019. Children under five years of age were the most likely to be treated in emergency rooms for firework-related injuries, and teens ages 15-19 were the second most likely.

Navicent Health Enhances Visitor Restrictions to Essential Visitation Only

12.29.2020

Health System Committed to Proactively Protecting Central Georgians from COVID-19 MACON, GA (12/29) – As the number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases increase in Georgia and following careful review of its policies and local COVID-19 data, Navicent Health has chosen to modify certain portions of its visitation policy. The visitation policy was put into place on March 12, 2020 to protect patients, visitors and caregivers from the threat of COVID-19.

Navicent Health Doctors Offer Advice for Safely Celebrating

12.15.2020

Navicent Health Doctors Offer Advice for Safely Celebrating As the holidays approach, the number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases has increased locally and nationwide. Although many are anxious to celebrate with family and friends, they are also concerned with celebrating the holidays safely during the pandemic.

Path2College 529 Plan Celebrates Season of Giving with $1,529 Donation to Navicent Health’s Baby’s First Book Program

12.8.2020

The state of Georgia’s college savings plan, the Path2College 529 Plan, is celebrating the season of giving with a $1,529 donation to Navicent Health’s baby’s first book program in the hospital’s birthing center. Through Navicent Health’s baby’s first book program, each newborn delivered at Navicent Health is provided a book prior to discharge.

Atrium Health Names Delvecchio S. Finley President and Chief Executive Officer of Atrium Health Navicent

12.3.2020

Emory graduate and experienced healthcare leader returns to Georgia to lead health system Atrium Health announced today that Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, has been named the next president and chief executive officer of Atrium Health Navicent, serving communities in central and south Georgia.

Community Invited to Join Region’s Only Dedicated Pediatric Hospital Online

12.2.2020

The community is cordially invited to join Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Navicent Health (BKO) online on Monday, December 7 at 6:00 p.m. for an annual holiday tradition, “A Night of Lights,” the lighting of the Children’s Tree. Jonas and Josiah Seabrooks, seven-year-old twins from Macon, Ga., will light the tree in honor of all of the hospital’s young patients and the children throughout the communities Navicent Health serves.

Annual Children’s Hospital Tree Lighting Goes Virtual

11.30.2020

Community Invited to Join Region’s Only Dedicated Pediatric Hospital Online The community is cordially invited to join Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Navicent Health (BKO) online on Monday, December 7 at 6:00 p.m. for an annual holiday tradition, “A Night of Lights,” the lighting of the Children’s Tree. Jonas and Josiah Seabrooks, seven-year-old twins from Macon, Ga., will light the tree in honor of all of the hospital’s young patients and the children throughout the communities Navicent Health serves.