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Longtime Wayne Memorial Hospital Pharmacist Misty Potts has been promoted to Director of Pharmacy for the facility. Potts will be directing the day-to-day activities of the pharmacy department as well as updating policies and procedures and overse... Read full article

Jesup -- Wayne Memorial Hospital now provides a new product that dramatically eases the discomfort many women feel when they get a mammogram.

The FDA-cleared foam cushion, called MammoPad®, creates a softer, warmer mammogram.

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As part of the improving organizational performance at WMH, a new piece of equipment has been added which should help decrease admission wait times at the new facility. WMH has acquired a Qmatic Registration System, which uses lighted display sig... Read full article

John McIlwain has recently joined Wayne Memorial Hospital as the Director of Human Resources. McIlwain will be directing the day-to-day activities of the human resources department as well as be in charge of updating policies and procedures when c... Read full article

Janet Mallard, a Wayne Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Member, received second place in the South Region of Positive Promotions’ 2007 “I Make A Difference” Volunteer of the Year Contest. Mallard was nominated by the WMH Auxiliary and Surgical Service... Read full article

Needless to say, 2007 has been an exciting year for Wayne Memorial Hospital. The changes that have taken place have been tremendous and we thank our staff, physicians, patients and community members for their help in building, moving and settling... Read full article

Moving a hospital is a huge task! It requires an enormous amount of planning and preparation. Considering and planning for the “what ifs” is a large part of the process.

A moving committee was formed in December of 2006 and held the first me... Read full article

Patient Rehabilitation has been one of the best-kept secrets at Wayne Memorial Hospital for quite sometime. However, due to exciting changes on the horizon it will be a secret no more! Rehabilitation will now be available in two different locations... Read full article

X-rays move at the speed of light and so does the Wayne Memorial Radiology Department! With a new facility that offers the latest, state-of-the-art imaging equipment, we rate ourselves second to none. Much to the pleasure of the radiology staff, phy... Read full article

The Wayne Memorial Hospital Surgical Services Department currently performs over 3000 procedures per year. Our department was extremely excited about the possibilities of our new surgical suites when we began the new hospital project.

Our hospi... Read full article

$300,000 For Wayne Memorial Hospital

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Congressman Jack Kingston (R/GA-1) secured $300,000 for Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup. The funds will go towards the purchase of an MRI machine and new CT scan... Read full article

Dr. William Davidson, an Otolaryngology Physician also known as an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Specialist, has joined the medical staff at Wayne Memorial Hospital. Dr. Davidson served in his own private practice in Trenton, New Jersey for almost 2... Read full article

Wayne Memorial Hospital received notification recently it has met the qualifications to join the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Five Million Lives Campaign, a national campaign to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.... Read full article

By demonstrating continued compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety, Wayne Memorial Hospital has continued to maintain the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval.

“We sought to re-q... Read full article

Patient Financial Services (PFS), often called the Business Office at Wayne Memorial Hospital, offers a variety of services for patients ranging from pre-registering to filing insurance claims to even assisting patients with their hospital bills. ... Read full article

Bob, a newly retired 66 year old black male is sitting at the breakfast table enjoying his coffee and the newspaper. Suddenly, the right side of his body goes limp and he drops the paper, unable to move his right side. When he tries to call for ... Read full article

HealthGrades, the leading healthcare ratings organization in the nation, released its 2007 annual Hospital Quality Study in America, where it has ranked over 5000 U.S. Hospitals. In Georgia alone, there were 70 hospitals that performed Total Knee ... Read full article

When it comes to choosing a hospital, quality counts, and Wayne Memorial Hospital proves it’s among the best with a recent honor from the Georgia Hospital Association’s (GHA) long standing Performance Measure System, CARE. The 127-bed hospital ha... Read full article

Wayne Memorial Hospital is excited to announce it has added cataract and minor eye surgeries to its list of out patient surgical services. Dr. Mark Manocha, M.D., ophthalmologist, has joined the auxiliary staff at Wayne Memorial Hospital and curr... Read full article

Wayne Memorial Hospital generated more than $75 million in revenue in 2004 for the local economy according to a recent report by the Georgia Hospital Association, the state’s largest hospital trade association. The report also found that during th... Read full article

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