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Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

November 12, 2021 by Mike

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Angela Ammons, CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

Angela Ammons, RN, BSN is the CEO of Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville, GA. Located in Southeast Georgia, CMH is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Homerville, Clinch County, and surrounding counties. Starting in late 2017, Ms. Ammons led a successful turnaround effort at CMH, which was close to shutting down. Working with outstanding female hospital executive mentors, Angela implemented a business strategy based on working with other South Georgia hospitals. CMH has also grown other revenues, successfully recruiting a physician from New York City to come to rural South Georgia and launching a Family Practice.

Angela was named “Hospital Leader of the Year” by HomeTown Health in 2018 and CMH was recognized by HomeTown Health as “Hospital of the Year” for 2019. In November 2020, she and her hospital were featured in a story in TIME Magazine. Angela was also a recent guest on the “HIT like a Girl” podcast where she shared some of the experiences that she has had as a rural hospital CEO.

Angela is proud of her origins as a nurse, having worked her way up to an opportunity to lead as a hospital CEO. Prior to joining CMH, Angela served as Nurse Director of the Behavioral Health Unit and Nurse Manager for the Medical/Surgical Unit at Memorial Satilla in Waycross, GA, and was a Critical Care RN at Southeast GA Health System in Brunswick, GA.

She obtained her Associates Degree in Nursing from Coastal College of Georgia in Brunswick, and her BSN through Western Governors University. She is pursuing her Masters in Nursing Leadership with Western Governors. Originally from Macon, Angela currently lives in South Georgia. In addition to her work at the hospital, she is the founder of a nonprofit organization that will build and sustain a free medical clinic in San Antonio, Intibuca Honduras and is passionate about mission work, and finding missions in your every day life.

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women is presented by

Supply Chain 101

November 11, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Supply Chain 101

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Marty Parker, J.D. Mealor and Rob Barnett

Regions Business Radio” covers financial topics such as banking and lending, mortgages, wealth management and more. The program also allows listeners to get to know some of the top executives from Regions Bank.

Hosted by J.D. Mealor, Senior Vice President and North Georgia Market Executive, all episodes of “Regions Business Radio” are available for download on Apple iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts.

Marty Parker/TechCXO

Marty Parker is a Partner at TechCXO as well as a lecturer/professor teaching Operations Management and Quality Management at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He also founded the UGA Supply Chain Advisory Board.

When not teaching, Marty serves as an interim COO for companies with $2MM to $30MM in revenue who have complicated or broken processes in the areas of supply chain, manufacturing, and process improvement.

Rob Barnett/AlphaGraphics Suwanee

AlphaGraphics Suwanee is your premier marketing and printing solution. The success of your business is your biggest priority, and theirs as well. At AlphaGraphics Suwanee, they focus on results and the return-on-investment of your marketing dollars. They are your local visual marketing and communication experts, who truly care about product quality, customer satisfaction and establishing long-term partnerships with their clients.

About Regions:

Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), with $145 billion in assets, is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, and mortgage products and services. Regions serves customers across the South, Midwest, and Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates approximately 1,400 banking offices and 2,000 ATMs. Regions Bank is an Equal Housing Lender and Member FDIC. Additional information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.regions.com.

This information is general in nature and is provided for educational purposes only. Regions makes no representation as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, suitability or validity of any information presented and Regions does not accept liability for any direct or indirect loss stemming from the application of any material. Information provided and statements made by employees of Regions should not be relied on or interpreted as accounting, financial planning, investment, legal or tax advice. Regions encourages you to consult an appropriate professional concerning your specific situation and irs.gov for current tax rules.

Resilient Gwinnett Initiative

November 11, 2021 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Resilient Gwinnett Initiative

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Emily Anne Vall, Heather Loveridge and Dr. Tinisha Parker

According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Survey of Children’s Health, more than 1 in 4 children have been exposed to at least one adverse event in their lives. In Georgia, 18% of children have experienced at least one adverse event and 10% have experienced two or more. Today’s episode discusses what children and young adults are experiencing and how Georgia and Gwinnett are working to build resilient communities.

Emily Anne Vall/Executive Director of Resilient Georgia

The vision for Resilient Georgia is for every child and young adult in Georgia to have access to high-quality, integrated behavioral health services and support, empowered by a statewide network of trauma-informed organizations working together to prevent and heal childhood adversity.

Dr. Tinisha Parker/Gwinnett County Public Schools Department of Student Services

Gwinnett County Public Schools, located in the metro Atlanta area, is the largest school system in Georgia and continues to grow. As a school system of choice, the finest teachers, involved parents, and a supportive community are key elements in the district’s quest to become a system of world-class schools. In 2021-22, the school district is serving more than 179,000 students. One of every five Gwinnett County residents is a GCPS student.

Jessica Andrews-Wilson/Gwinnett Coalition Board Member & Executive Director of GUIDE

The mission of GUIDE (Gwinnett United In Drug Education) is to improve community conditions by utilizing collaborations, promoting positive youth development, delivering specialized training and resources and preventing substance use and abuse.

Host: Heather Loveridge/Magnolia Media Group

At the heart of marketing is great storytelling – and that’s what they do at Magnolia Media Group. Whether it’s through social media, e-newsletters, websites, brochures or complete marketing services, they help organizations tell their story.

Giving Back to Gwinnett is presented by:

Jeff Lovejoy with ActionCOACH and Suzanne Nicol & Dana James with Holbrook of Sugar Hill

November 11, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Jeff Lovejoy with ActionCOACH and Suzanne Nicol & Dana James with Holbrook of Sugar Hill

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Jeff Lovejoy, Suzanne Nicol and Dana James

Jeff Lovejoy/ActionCOACH

For the past 14 years, Jeff Lovejoy has owned an ActionCOACH franchise (global coaching organization). His typical clients are successful, but come to him because they know their businesses is capable of greater success. They just don’t know how to achieve that success. Their knowledge has gotten them to where they are, but they don’t know how to get to the next level. They typically think that to achieve greater growth and success, they have to work longer and harder, which leads to frustration, loss of motivation and a poor work/life balance.

Jeff doesn’t teach them how to do the day-to-day work better, but rather how to become better owners by becoming more strategic and better managers of their time. His clients gain a sense of direction and focus. They become much more proactive vs. the typical owner who is totally reactive.

ActionCOACH focuses on marketing, sales, leadership, financial, customer experience, building a superior team, installing processes, and much more as they are moved into the next level.

Suzanne Nicol & Dana James/Holbrook of Sugar Hill

Opening Summer 2022, Holbrook Sugar Hill Assisted Living and Memory Care is designed on purpose for clinically-proven positive outcomes in seniors health and daily lives. Holbrook of Sugar Hill will offer state of the art features such as oversized one and two bedroom floorplans, on-site rehab, Hydrotherapy pool, UV lighting, and negative emissions. Holbrook Life communities, aim to enrich mind, body and spirit for life that’s lived to the fullest. Holbrook Sugar Hill is currently pre-leasing today!

Gwinnett Business Radio is presented by

Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

November 5, 2021 by Mike

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Lorri Christopher, Peachtree Corners City Council Member

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Lorri Christopher/Peachtree Corners City Council

A 34-year resident of Peachtree Corners, Lorri Christopher brings many years of leadership in business, education, and community service to her current role as a City Council Member.

Lorri was a principal in CAP Associates, a human resources consulting firm, and retired from Gwinnett Technical College in 2012 as a CIS Faculty Program & IA Director. She is an adjunct faculty member, and a Trustee of the Gwinnett Senior Leadership program. A former IT Project Manager for the 1996 Olympics, she managed, recruited, planned, trained, and coordinated technology volunteers and vendor education needs for Game venues.

Additional career stops include serving as COO of Atlanta Desktop, co-President of United Mortgage Company, and a Founding Director of Paces Bank & Trust.

Lorri is an alumnus of Leadership America, Leadership Atlanta, Senior Leadership Gwinnett; past President of The International Alliance and GEWN; former Chair of the Georgia Council on Vocational Education, the Employment & Training Council, and the Georgia 21 Commission. She is a recipient of the 21st Century Award from The International Alliance, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s DECA award, the Triumph Inspiration 21st Century Woman Award, and a member of the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers.

Celebrating Powerhouse Women is presented by

Men and Eating Disorders with Brian Cuban

November 4, 2021 by Mike

Food, Faith & Feelings

Men and Eating Disorders with Brian Cuban

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Brian Cuban/Author and Addiction Recovery Advocate

Brian Cuban, the younger brother of Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, is a Dallas based attorney, author, and addiction recovery advocate. He is graduate of Penn State University and The University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Brian has been in long term recovery from alcohol, cocaine and bulimia since April of 2007.

His first book, Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder, chronicles his first-hand experiences living with, and recovering from, 27 years of eating disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Brian’s most recent best-selling book, The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow, & Redemption is an un-flinching look back at how addiction and other mental health issues destroyed his career as a once successful lawyer and how he and others in the profession redefined their lives in recovery and found redemption.

Brian has spoken at colleges, universities, conferences, non-profit and legal events across the United States and in Canada. He has appeared on prestigious talks shows such as the Katie Couric Show as well as numerous media outlets around the country. He also writes extensively on these subjects. His columns have appeared and he has been quoted on these topics on CNN.com, Foxnews.com, The Huffington Post, Above The Law, The New York Times, and in online and print newspapers around the world.

About Manna Fund:

Manna Fund is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing hope and financial assistance to individuals who need eating disorder treatment scholarships. Manna provides funding for inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient eating disorder treatment for individuals lacking insurance coverage or for those with inadequate insurance coverage. Manna Fund grants scholarships to recipients by providing direct payment to partnering eating disorder treatment facilities.

Their mission is to address the epidemic of eating disorders by providing prevention, education, research, and financial assistance for treatment to all qualified individuals through well-administered programs.

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Presented by

Freda Kalina with Buford Business Alliance and Jayson Bellamy with Bellamy Media Group

November 4, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Freda Kalina with Buford Business Alliance and Jayson Bellamy with Bellamy Media Group

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Freda Kalina/Buford Business Alliance

The Buford Business Alliance is a non-profit organization that brings together the citizens, city leaders, civic organizations and the businesses of Buford in a communal spirit. They work together through festivals, events, and other marketing opportunities to promote business and tourism in Buford.

Jayson Bellamy/Bellamy Media Group & Associates

Bellamy Media Group & Associates help organizations integrate Digital Marketing into daily operations to spread a message, increase revenues, motivate employees and improve outreach.

Gwinnett Business Radio is presented by

Closing Arguments

November 3, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Closing Arguments

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“Injury Insider with Derek Hays” answers legal questions and debunks personal injury myths with insight and expertise. For 25 years, Derek has exclusively represented injured parties in Georgia. Now, he’d like to put that knowledge to work for you!

“Injury Insider with Derek Hays” is brought to you by Status Home Design, your one-stop-shop for all your home and gift needs.

On this special episode broadcast from the Gwinnett Chamber’s Small Business Awards at the Gas South District Convention Center, personal injury attorney Derek Hays discusses closing arguments.

About The Law Office of Derek M. Hays

The Law Office of Derek M. Hays is located in the heart of downtown Lawrenceville at 30 Lumpkin Street, Suite C in Lawrenceville, GA . We are just minutes away from the Lawrenceville Square and Gwinnett Justice and Administrative Center.

Derek Hays, owner and founder of the Law Office of Derek M. Hays, is among Georgia’s elite trial lawyers, recognized for his work on behalf of victims of car wrecks, nursing home negligence and other personal injury claims. He has successfully obtained approximately $125,000,000 in combined verdicts and settlements in his almost 25 years practicing law. Nationally, he is one of America’s Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, earned by the most skilled and ethical attorneys. Derek M. Hays has also been honored as Gwinnett Magazine’s “Best of Gwinnett” every year since 2015 as well as being a valued member of the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Mr. Hays believes communication is key and this sets him apart from other firms. He is committed to clients and manages each case while discussing all aspects of your claim with you from the beginning, answering questions and guiding you through the process to maximize your compensation.

Call for a free, no risk case evaluation – 404-777-HURT

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Top Challenges to Overcome

November 1, 2021 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Top Challenges to Overcome

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Every health system leader has unprecedented executive management challenges facing their organization in the wake of the pandemic. During a recent virtual executive roundtable session hosted by the Healthcare Management Academy (HMA), which included the Baldrige Foundation co-hosts Dr. Roger Spoelman and Dr. Charles Peck as panelists, the discussion clarified the top challenges to overcome for health systems to “future proof” their organizations.

On this episode of “Leader Dialogue Radio”, Dr. Spoelman and Dr. Peck will unpack the audience voting from the HMA interactive executive round table, providing keen insight as to the prioritized problems-to-solve and considerations for addressing the challenges.

Roger Spoelman, DBA, MBA
Senior Advisor, Strategy, Leadership, and Innovation

Roger is a healthcare executive with more than 38 years of industry experience. He most recently served as interim CEO at Trinity Health Regional Systems in New England, Ohio, and Illinois at Loyola University Health System.

His tenure at Trinity Health included leading several hospital mergers, and later as regional executive for the corporation’s Mercy Health operations. He also is founder and executive sponsor of the Trinity Health Innovation Hub. In 2018, Roger oversaw the merger of International Aid Inc. and CURE International Inc., two organizations where he served on the Board of Directors for over a decade. He recently served as the President and CEO for CURE International Inc., which operates eight charitable hospitals in developing nations, and focuses on faith-based care that restores quality of life to pediatric patients with surgically treatable disabilities. Roger was appointed Chair of the BAMF Health board of directors in 2019. He is working closely with the company to achieve their patent-focused mission of bringing intelligence-based precision medicine to the world.

Roger is a co-host of the Baldrige Foundation Leader Dialogue program, and mentors and coaches’ numerous executives and assists organizations and their boards of directors with succession, strategy, and innovation.

Charles (Chuck) Peck, MD, FACS

Charles (Chuck) Peck is an internist and rheumatologist with more than 35 years of healthcare experience as a clinician, scientist, medical school faculty member, administrator, medical director, CEO, and partner in the global healthcare advisory company Guidehouse.

Chuck’s most recent projects include a $108M financial turnaround of a $2B integrated health system in the northeast leading to their affiliation with a leading academic health system. He was a member of President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services transition team. Prior to joining Guidehouse, Chuck served as CEO of Piedmont Athens Regional Health System, on the board of Vizient Southern States, partner at a global healthcare consulting firm responsible for the clinical operations practice; CEO of a 150 physician group multi-specialty practice; president of the southeast and northeast regions of a large national health insurance carrier; chief medical officer of a start-up retail health clinic operator; chief medical officer/chief operations officer of a national disease management company; and CEO of an ambulatory surgery center and physician services company.

Chuck is a co-host of the Baldrige Foundation Leader Dialogue program and provides mentoring and thought leadership insights to numerous organizations and leaders across the country on a variety of operational, financial, and leadership topics.

Dr. Darin Vercillo, MD
Darin Vercillo co-founded ABOUT, drawing upon his expertise in developing and implementing medical information systems specifically designed to manage complex patient needs, medical education, and faculty and staff logistics. Darin provides clinical oversite and direction across all facets of ABOUT.

A board-certified hospitalist practicing in the Salt Lake City area, Darin also served as a clinical advisor and technical developer at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Previously to his work at ABOUT, Darin served as a physician knowledge engineer and interim Chief Medical Officer at TheraDoc.

Ben Sawyer, MBA, PT, OCS, LBB

Ben Sawyer is an ABOUT executive. He has more than 35 years of industry experience, most recently serving as CEO of SOAR Vision Group, and EVP of Care Logistics.

Ben started his healthcare career in 1985 as a Physical Therapist, focusing on sports medicine and orthopedics, and received his specialist certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) in 1997 from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.

After securing his MBA, he moved into hospital administration, overseeing rehab, wellness, cardiac therapy, and occupational medicine services, specializing in team development and performance optimization. This expanded into a system leadership role overseeing performance and quality improvement. During that time Ben achieved his Lean Black Belt certification (LBB)

Ben has a gift for recognizing strategic gaps that can be turned into opportunities. For example, during the COVID-19 crisis he initiated national executive roundtables with the Baldrige Foundation via the Leader Dialogue program to help executives turn the pandemic disruption into an opportunity for improved collaboration and performance towards true Community Health beyond the walls of hospitals and to prioritize and coordinate action and resources.