WellStar Clinical Partners Medicare ACO was recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its performance in cost savings, and for its impressive patient experience reviews. According…
Cobb & Douglas Public Health (CDPH) issued the following press release regarding a Hepatitis A case involving an employee at Vittles restaurant in Smynra: A case of hepatitis A has…
Today’s doctors deal with many social problems — and to adequately address them, it’s often necessary to treat not just the medical symptoms of the problem, but also the source….
According to a news release from the Cobb & Douglas Public Health (CDPH) Hepatitis A is spreading across Georgia. The release contained the following information. All quotes are taken verbatim…
[This letter to the editor is from Foster Norman, CEO of Cobb County Community Services Board] To the editor: As we recognize National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on…
Free HIV testing will be offered on February 8 by Cobb & Douglas Public Health (CDPH) in observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (February 8), The testing will be…
Jim Williams lives in Smyrna and is a volunteer legislative ambassador for the Georgia Alzheimer‘s Association for U.S. Congressional District 13. We met in the popular Smyrna coffee shop Rev Coffee…
Cobb County is the seventh healthiest among Georgia’s 159 counties, according to the 2018 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This yearly report evaluates counties…
by Haisten Willis and Judi Kanne While it has been decades since HIV/AIDS was a frequent topic of national headlines, and medical advances have greatly reduced the threat of…
This article by Judi Kanne and Haisten Willis is the first in a series of articles the Cobb County Courier will be publishing on health care in Cobb County. While…