Faces and places
Cross joins Renasant Bank as manager
Matt Cross has recently joined Renasant Bank as a commercial banking portfolio manager. He has eight years of banking experience in the Middle Georgia area. He is located at the 4961 Forsyth Road office.
Middle Georgia hospitals recognized
The Medical Center of Peach County, Navicent Health, and Putnam General Hospital, a Navicent Health partner, have been recognized by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health for the continuing commitment to provide patients in rural Georgia communities access to excellent health care services.
The hospitals are two of 20 rural Georgia hospitals recognized by the national organization for Excellence in Outcomes. The recognition was based on patient safety indicators, readmission rates and mortality rates.
Goodwill names Saunders to boards of directors
Ninfa Saunders, president and CEO of Navicent Health in Macon was named to the board of directors of Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia and the CSRA for 2016.
B&D Industrial selects chief financial officer
Macon-based B&D Industrial selected Lauren Lanter as its chief financial officer. Lanter will manage all financial statements, strategic plans and governs the financial welfare of B&D Industrial and its divisions.
Georgia Trend includes eight Macon lawyers
Eight Macon lawyers are included on Georgia Trend magazine's list of Legal Elite 2015. The list represents more than 250 law firms in more than 30 cities across Georgia in 14 practice areas. The listings are determined solely by lawyers' votes.
Those selected from Macon with their area of practice are bankruptcy: Sean Bewick with Dozier Law Firm LLC; general practice: Ken Smith with The Law Offices of Ken Smith LLC; labor and employment: William Haas III with Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP and David McCain with Childers & McCain LLC; public finance: Blake Sharpton with Butler Snow LLP; real estate and construction: Stephanie Friese and Blair Cleveland with Martin Snow LLP and taxes and estate: Boone Smith IV with Smith Hawkins Hollingsworth Reeves LLP.
-- Angela Woolen
This story was originally published January 9, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Faces and places ."