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To Our Community
W ith this issue of Report to Our numerous healthcare providers have been Navicent Health becomes a destination
Community, we are pleased to offer forced to close their doors. Rural and critical healthcare provider and a leader in the
our first annual report under our access hospitals have perhaps been the most healthcare industry, we expect to have an even
new Navicent Health brand. On affected by the shifting healthcare landscape. greater impact on our local and state economy.
September 3, 2014, Central Georgia Health Since 2012, five of Georgia’s rural hospitals
System and its affiliated entities announced a have been forced to close, and others are With these goals in mind, we remain
new brand identity, Navicent Health. The teetering on the brink of collapse. Each committed to our patients here at home –
purpose of our new brand is to unite our hospital closure is devastating to that those who have known who we are for many
entities and consolidate local healthcare community’s healthcare and economy. In an years and placed their care in our hands,
options into one easily recognizable healthcare effort to stabilize rural and critical access trusted us to provide quality care when a loved
provider while continuing to offer the same hospitals and therefore keep healthcare local, one has been ill, come to us for rehabilitation
caliber of service that we have provided for Navicent Health has joined with numerous or diagnostic testing, or even hospice and
years. smaller health systems and individual hospitals palliative care. We have been part of the fabric
to collaborate clinical services, information of central Georgia for many years and we will
Our new name combines the words navigate technology and strategic direction. While many continue to enjoy those relationships as
and center to symbolize and unify our purpose believe the idea of collaborating with Navicent Health.
as a leading health system – to help patients “competition” is extraordinary, it is a step that
navigate the path to wellness while keeping makes more and more sense as the industry Sincerely,
them at the center of all that we do. We evolves. We need one another, and patients
believe the excellent healthcare that we have need both critical access and tertiary services Dr. Ninfa M. Saunders, FACHE
practiced for over a century can be better to survive. Through collaborations, we are able President and CEO
accessed under one umbrella brand that is to ensure the long term viability for each Navicent Health
easier for patients to identify and embrace. By partner involved while strengthening local
unifying our service lines under one name, we healthcare options and local economies. Our
let our customers know that we are one team personal collaborative at Navicent Health
sharing one purpose along the continuum of along with the growing collaborative that is
care. Together, we will build our reputation for Stratus Healthcare, the non-equity alliance that
excellence and create a strong foundation for Navicent Health cofounded in 2013, have
the future. drawn the eyes of the nation to central
Georgia. In fact, many other providers across
I am pleased to tell you that our future is the nation are replicating the Stratus model
bright. We have continued to build on our and joining one another in collaborative care.
legacy as a world-class healthcare provider to
become nationally recognized for the services Our reputation for clinical excellence and our
that we offer – most notably for cardiology and growing reputation as an industry leader will
heart surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology allow us to extend our care beyond central
and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, Georgia to our state, the Southeast, and the
nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, United States. Our goal is to become a
oncology, orthopedics, pulmonology and healthcare provider of choice, rivaling other
urology. Now, Navicent Health’s reputation is nationally known providers such as Mayo
growing nationally for a different reason Clinic and Emory Healthcare. This will not
altogether. only be good for our organization, but will
benefit the community at large. According to
Recently, as many external forces have the Georgia Hospital Association, Central
necessitated changes in the healthcare industry, Georgia Health System had a $1.4 billion
impact on the state economy in 2012. As
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