WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the outbreak, Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the outbreak, Read the rest of this entry »

12:43 AM CST on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A strain of salmonella that was detected at a Georgia peanut plant and caused hundreds of illnesses nationwide also has been confirmed in peanuts processed at a West Texas plant owned by the same company, Texas health officials announced Tuesday.
The Plainview plant was supplying peanut ingredients for 150 to 200 food manufacturers around the country. Several manufacturers Read the rest of this entry »

By Mike Adams, January 16, 2009 | Key concepts:
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Have you ever seen a dark, horrifying psychiatric ward in a Hollywood movie? You know, the kind where the patients are abused by hospital workers, overdosed with medications to keep them sedated, and then dumped on the streets when the insurance money runs out? That’s no Hollywood fiction: It’s the way psychiatric hospitals are run in the state of Georgia.
The U.S. Justice Department launched Read the rest of this entry »

LLC was awarded the contract to advise a hospital in Georgia on the construction of a new facility.
The company will provide advisory services and a strategic project launch readiness assessment for a new Phoebe-Sumter Hospital in Americus, Ga., said a news release.
KLMK said the hospital plans to build a 50,000- to 60,000-square-foot medical office building and a 76-bed hospital.
It will include an emergency department, diagnostic imaging, Read the rest of this entry »

Georgia: Hospital, nursing home get new beds, upgrade others
Oct 26, 2008 (Chattanooga Times/Free Press – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
— Hutcheson Medical Center and Parkside Nursing Home patients can look forward to new, state-of-the art hospital beds when using the facilities, hospital officials announced recently.
With funds from a $35.5 million bond issued to upgrade the hospital from top to bottom, officials purchased Read the rest of this entry »

The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals honors Floyd Medical Center.
Kurt Stuenkel, CEO of
, won the Robert A. Lipson CEO of the Year Award during the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals’ 2008 annual meeting at Callaway Gardens this weekend.
The award recognizes Stuenkel’s leadership, which the GACH credited with helping Floyd Medical Center become recognized as one of the best large hospitals in Georgia. Floyd Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »

Although NGHS’s potential exposure to interest rate and term-out risks
is considerable, this is largely offset by the system’s robust financial
profile and relatively good access to the capital markets indicated by
its strong rating level. Essentially all of NGHS’s outstanding debt
consists of variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs), of which the $103
million series 2007G are currently held as bank bonds. The Read the rest of this entry »

The program, dubbed “Georgia Lipid Academy,” was developed in consultation
with the National Lipid Association (NLA). This is because cardiometabolic
illnesses are closely related to lipid management, the control of fats in the
blood. The NLA is an expert organization of physicians and healthcare
providers who specialize in research and treatment of lipid disorders, and the
association agreed to develop a customized lipid education program for
Georgia’s Read the rest of this entry »

Major national brands of jarred peanut butter, however, were not tainted.
In the coming days, President Obama plans to announce a new Federal Drug Administration commissioner and other officials who will implement a “stricter regulatory structure” to improve food safety inspections, a White House spokesman said.
The American Peanut Council, a trade association, issued a statement responding to the FDA report that the company knowingly released Read the rest of this entry »