Faces and places

Wesleyan's Bailey honored; chapel is LEED certified at silver level

Gov. Nathan Deal honored Elizabeth Bailey, a professor of art at Wesleyan College, as a recipient of the fourth annual Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities during a recent ceremony at the Capitol. The award honors outstanding individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to Georgia's civic and cultural vitality through excellence and service to the arts and humanities.

For more than 35 years, Bailey has taught drawing, painting and art history to more than 2,000 students at Wesleyan. About 10 years ago, she created the "adopt-a-painting" program at Wesleyan with the philosophy that the college's art must be conserved, displayed and enjoyed by the community. To date, the program has preserved more than 120 paintings and other objects.

Wesleyan College also received LEED certification to the silver level for the new construction of Pierce Chapel. The LEED rating system is a program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance. Pierce Chapel is Wesleyan's second LEED-certified green building. Taylor Hall, renovated in 2011, is LEED certified to the gold level.The Medical Center, Navicent Health, has been included in research engine Health Grove's listing of the best hospitals in the state, ranking second behind Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

To determine which hospitals to include in Georgia's top 10, Health Grove examined data from the following areas: Medicare performance scores, number of cases per year, U.S. News & World Report ranking, lowest mortality rates related to pneumonia, heart attack and heart failure, and lowest rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

Alicia Register, a third-year surgery resident, recently won first place in the American College of Surgeons Georgia Committee on Trauma Resident Research competition. Register's research project was titled, "Screening Tool for High-Risk Geriatric Trauma Patients Predicts Discharge Disposition."

As first-place winner from Georgia, Register will represent the state in the American College of Surgeons Southeast Region competition in November.Jessica Walden has joined the staff of EveryoneOn, a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide, as its newly named Macon regional manager.

Her hire coincides with September's $288,500 grant announcement from the James M. Cox Foundation to fund an innovative pilot program providing 1,500 tablet computers to families that are enrolling in Cox Communications' Connect2Compete Internet service program.

Since 2009, Walden has worked as the director of communications for the College Hill Alliance.

-- Angela Woolen

This story was originally published October 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Faces and places ."