Section: Health Services
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Do any of the doctors in the hospital group see pediatric patients? I live in north Effingham and hate to drive to Savannah when my two year old is sick.
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Yes. Dr. Joseph L. Ratchford specializes in internal medicine and pediatrics. His office is located on the hospital campus. Please do not hesitate to call his office for an appointment 754-7500.
Also, the following Effingham Hospital family practice physicians will be glad to see your two year old sick child:
Dr. James Cornwell - Rincon 826-0052
Dr. Chris Mathews - Goshen 826-6000
Dr. Chris DeLisle - Port Wentworth 966-2575
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Section: Health Services
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When will the new expansion & updates begin at the Hospital?
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Currently, the Hospital Authority is working with HUD to complete the various documents required for federal backing of the Build America Bonds that will be sold to finance the modernization project.
HUD has requested a copy of the contract between the Hospital Authority and the Effingham County Commission. Next, the HUD officials will visit Effingham County. Various county leaders will be interviewed by the HUD team. Once all of the elements of the financing/mortgage/construction/regulatory compliance plan has been reviewed and signed, the investment banker will start selling the bonds.
Once the bonds are sold and the financing released....we will start constructiion. This could start by late fall
2010 but no later than early January 2011. Thank you for your interest in our health system expansion.
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Section: Health Services
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In all of the things that I have read on your site, you forgot to a section for complaint against your hospital. To me, I would like to know what your patients experience in your hospital, is there any chance that this could be added to your site on th computer
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fThank you for your interest in customer service. Of course we always want be accessible to hear from our patients and families. On the Effingham Hospital website www.effinghamhealth.org you can access an email address and a number to call.
Under "Contact Us" it reads: "Find it Fast Directory":We want to hear from you. If you have any questions or comments concerning Effingham Hospial, our serivices or this web site, please feel to contact us.
Effingham Hospital
459 Hwy 119 S Springfield, Ga. 31329
Main Phone: 912.754.6451
Fax: 912.754.9901
Email: rogeram@effinghamhospital.org
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Section: Health Services
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Why do you have all of those billboards up saying the Effingham Hospital website has been changed to EffinghamHealth? Are you now affiliated with Memorial Health? Isn't EffinghamHospital much less confusing for your website than trying to remember EffinghamHealth?
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Thank you for your question. The decision was made to change our web address to EffinghamHealth.org
for many reasons, the most significant being that we believe it is important for our community to know that we are so much more than a "Hospital." Effingham Hospital and Care Center now has a comprehensive Women's Imaging Center & Radiology Center and Open MRI Center in Rincon; an Industrial Medicine Program serving companies across the county and beyond, also located in Rincon; we have a Sports Medicine program that serves the two county high schools; we have a family health practices in Port Wentworth, at Goshen and in Rincon; we are about to introduce a new surgery practice here in Springfield and our plans over the next several years include adding additional preventative wellness programs that will continue meeting the ever-changing health needs of our growing community.
The new website has been an extremely effective tool to get the word out about all that we offer and now offers more information such as helpful articles on some of today's most pressing health issues. Since the launch of our new site in February of this year, we are seeing an average of 1,100 visitors per month which is a significant increase. We can identify that nearly 86% of the visitors coming to our new site are coming because they typed in EffinghamHealth.org giving us confidence that the change has not created confusion of who we are and how to find us.
Effingham Hospital and Care Center has important relationships with the Savannah hospitals. We are all partners in health for the region; but, we have no formal relationship with any hospital system, other than our Critical Access Hospital referral relationship is with the St. Joseph/Candler Health System.
Hope you will take some time to visit the new site as it is updated frequently with new information.
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Section: Health Services
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Section: Health Services
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We are new to the county and were wondering if you offered a sports medicine program. If so, where is it located?
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Effingham Hospital has a very involved Sports Medicine program that primarily serves the two high schools in our county. We provide two sports trainers, one at each high school, to support the athletic program.
In addition to two staff persons funded by the Hospital Authority as a part of our Community Benefit responsibility as a non-profit hospital, we provide free physicals each year for athletes in the Middle Schools as well as the the High Schools. At the end of each school year, the Hospital Authority recognizes athletes from each High School that have excelled throughout the year with a Sports Banquet.The main Sports Medicine office is located at the intersection of Goshen Road and Ga. Highway 21 South, near Rincon, Georgia. The building is marked, "Sports and Occupational Medicine." Please don't hesitate to contact Mr. Joe Tallent, Manager of the Sports Medicine program at (912) 826-1500 for more information.
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