Faces and places: Perdue Farms earns safety awards
Twenty-one Perdue Farms’ facilities in nine states, including the two plants in Perry, were recognized by the Joint Industry Safety and Health Council for outstanding safety performance for consistently implementing innovative and effective safety and health processes and systems. Perdue facilities received 21 of the 115 total awards given, the most received by any council member company.
The company’s food-producing facilities that received Awards of Distinction included the two plants in Perry. This is the fourth straight year both Perry facilities have earned an Award of Distinction since the inception of the safety award program in 2010.Macon physician Michael Early Sr., who serves as an assistant professor of family practice at Morehouse School of Medicine’s community medicine department, received a Community Preceptor Recognition Award.
The Community Preceptor Appreciation and Awards Celebration Day was created to thank the more than 300 volunteer preceptors who help enhance the education of all MSM learners. Many of the preceptors travel great distances to help supervise students in the underserved communities the college serves.Bridget Denzik has joined Coliseum Medical Centers as its chief nursing officer. She brings with her an extensive background in nursing leadership and administration.
She has more than 25 years of nursing experience. Most recently, Denzik served as CNO for Cartersville Medical Center in Cartersville.Spillers Orthodontics was recognized as the Business of the Month for September by the business development committee of the Perry Area Chamber of Commerce. This award makes them eligible for the Business of the Year Award.
Dr. and Mrs. Spillers began the business in 1993 with three employees. Today Spillers Orthodontics has more than 20 employees.Zachary Lopater has joinged Central Georgia Radiation Oncology as a radiation oncologist in its Macon and Warner Robins offices. He is originally from Tennessee,
Lopater served as chief resident at the University of Minnesota, as national resident in the Clinical Learning Evaluation Committee with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and was an Eagle Scout Award recipient.Putnam General Hospital in Eatonton has received full chest pain center accreditation from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. Putnam General becomes the first and only critical access hospital in Georgia to receive this distinction.
The hospital’s evidence-based, protocol-driven and systematic approach to cardiac patient care allows clinicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack.
Putnam General Hospital has provided community-based health care to Putnam County and the surrounding lake country since 1968.