The Medical Center of Central Georgia and Care Logistics® Announce Ribbon Cutting

New Logistics Hub to Improve Patient Care and Quality

MACON, GA (Tuesday, May 22, 2012) - The Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) is pleased to announce the grand opening of the Logistics Hub, Thursday, May 24. The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 11:00 a.m., and an open house will last from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Logistics Hub is located on the second floor of MCCG's East Tower.

In October 2011, MCCG partnered with Care Logistics®, a leading hospital operating system solution provider for the purpose of increasing efficiency in operations. The result was the Logistics Hub. The 7,583 square foot Logistics Hub will be the point at which patients are accepted, placed and transferred. It will include space for the hospital's Clinical Staffing Department and House Coordinators, Centralized Telemetry Monitoring, conference and teleconferencing space, a "Solutions Center" for weekly operational meetings and office space to support these functions.

"The centralization of technology in this space will allow for coordination of all items necessary to facilitate patient movement through MCCG," said Don Faulk, President/CEO of The Medical Center of Central Georgia. "Hospitals who utilize the Care Logistics® coordination model are better able to integrate all the clinical and non-clinical patient movements and order executions occurring in a hospital environment to achieve optimal patient flow and length of stay while enhancing overall patient satisfaction and quality."

MCCG plans for the Logistics Hub to begin serving patients on July 9.

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About Care Logistics®

In support of our customers' operational goals..., we provide a leadership mindset curriculum and process reengineering, empowered by enterprise logistics software, to help our hospitals achieve reliable and predictable operational performance in the areas of throughput, quality, & experience.  Care Logistics® is a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare, a group of companies focused on providing the healthcare industry with innovative physician and clinical resources and IT solutions. For more information, contact Care Logistics® at (800) 930-0870.

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About The Medical Center of Central Georgia

The Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG), an entity of Central Georgia Health System (CGHS), is a tertiary regional teaching medical center, a designated Level I Trauma Center, a perinatal center, and is one of 42 twice-designated Magnet(r) hospitals for nursing excellence nationwide. MCCG serves a primary and secondary service area of 30 counties and nearly 750,000 persons in central and South Georgia. It has over 4,600 employees and a medical staff of over 590 physicians. MCCG is the second largest hospital in Georgia with a capacity of 637 beds including medical-surgical, obstetric, pediatric, psychiatric, and specialized individual intensive care units for neurology, pediatric, neonatal, surgical trauma, cardiac and cardiac surgery. The Emergency Center, with helipad capability and three urgent care centers, treats over 120,000 visitors per year. MCCG provides a broad range of community-based, outpatient diagnostic, primary care, extensive home health and hospice care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services. MCCG is the primary teaching hospital for Mercer University School of Medicine, providing residency and fellowship programs for over 100 residents and fellows, and is affiliated with multiple universities as a clinical education site.

Visit  www.MCCG.org  for more information.

The Medical Center of Central Georgia...striving to make excellence a daily standard.



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