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HEALTH & HOSPITAL NEWS

FOUNDATION APPROVES MEDICAL
$150,000 GRANT FOR FIRST CENTER LEADS
CHOICE PRIMARY CARE STATE IN
INNOVATIVE
Navicent Health Foundation approved a $150,000 grant to First Choice Primary Care (FCPC), PACEMAKER
continuing the health system’s commitment to Bibb County’s Federally Qualified Health PROCEDURE
Center. Grant funds will be used to assist FCPC as it transitions to a larger medical office
space, allowing the clinic to maintain and expand services in the clinic’s new location at 400 The Medical Center,
Poplar St. in Macon. Navicent Health (MCNH)
is again leading the way
“Access to primary care has been identified as a major issue in Macon-Bibb County,” says in innovative heart care,
Katherine McLeod, Chief Executive Officer of FCPC. “Access to a primary care provider is becoming the first hospital
particularly important for patients who have been hospitalized and need a medical home in the region to perform
after a hospital stay. Through our continued partnership with Navicent Health, we’ve been His-bundle pacing (HBP)
able to significantly reduce emergency visits and readmissions to the hospital. We’re excited procedures.
about the possibilities for expanding our partnership in our new medical office.”
Traditionally,
Navicent Health and FCPC have partnered since 2017. pacemakers are implanted
with a lead positioned
7 STUDENTS RECEIVE to deliver the electrical
SCHOLARSHIPS impulses to the heart’s
right ventricle to regulate
Seven students have received college a slow or irregular heart
scholarships through two Navicent rhythm. However, MCNH’s
Health programs. Felix Sogade, MD, is one
of a growing number
On July 25, four college students were of physicians to use an
presented the 11th annual Samuel M. emerging technique,
Goodrich, M.D., Endowed Healthcare in which a specialized
Scholarship at Navicent Health Baldwin. pacemaker lead is
Scholarship recipients were Chandler positioned in a different
Knight, Gabby Carter, Haley Marks and location—at or near the
Kara Kelsey. The scholarship, named bundle of His—utilizing
in honor of Dr. Goodrich, a long-time the heart’s natural
Milledgeville OB-GYN, was established conduction system to
in 2008 to assist students going into the restore the heart’s normal
healthcare field. rhythm.

On Aug. 14, the 2019 Don Faulk Teen “There is increasing
Volunteer Scholarship was presented awareness that, for certain
at The Medical Center, Navicent patients, pacing the
Health to recipients Garrett Patterson, heart in a manner that
Morgan Brown and Ashlee Brown. The mimics the heart’s natural
scholarships are awarded to high school electrical conduction
students who have volunteered through pattern is preferable to the
Navicent Health’s Teen Volunteer older ways that we have
Program. traditionally done in the
past,” Dr. Sogade says.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NAVICENT HEALTH’S TEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM,
VISIT WWW.NAVICENTHEALTH.ORG/GET-INVOLVED.HTML.

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