Find Top-Notch Health Care in Columbus, GA
The landscape is lush with exceptional health care in Columbus, GA, and the Chattahoochee Valley. A new children’s hospital, leading women’s care, standout behavioral and mental health services, excellence in emergency care, award-winning cardiac and cancer treatment, outstanding orthopedic providers plus a focus on making sure everyone has access to living their healthiest life are why people love to live in the Columbus area.
Discover more about four, award-winning facilities that embrace caring for their community.
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Hughston Clinic
About: Hughston Clinic is a multispecialty, orthopedic practice. Main campus is located on Veterans Parkway in Columbus. The practice also includes 32 clinics in four states, nine orthopedic trauma centers, three surgical centers, 19 rehabilitation centers and Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital in Phenix City, Alabama.
Leadership: Mark Baker, CEO
“We have proudly served the citizens of Columbus for 75 years,” Baker says. “And it is our privilege to carry on the Hughston legacy for the next 75 years.”
Areas of Service: Centers of Excellence in spine, upper and lower extremities, trauma and total joint replacement. Care offered by specialty-trained physicians and health care professionals.
Community Involvement: The official sports medicine provider for Muscogee County Schools and other surrounding counties, Hughston physicians provide sideline medical care, give annual preparticipation health screenings and host Saturday morning injury clinics during the fall sports season.
Valley Heathcare System
About: Valley Healthcare System is a nonprofit health care provider located just north of Fort Moore that serves Columbus and the Chattahoochee Valley.
Leadership: Dr. Asante Hilts, CEO
“We are a vital part of Columbus and the surrounding area. The welfare of our community means everything to us,” Hilts says. “Our focus is patient-centered, providing whole-person, team-based care and to remove the barriers that limit access to comprehensive health care in our community.”
Areas of Service: Family medicine, dental services, pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, telehealth and more. Also offers transportation and insurance assistance.
Community Involvement: Hosts community outreach events providing mobile units, free services and resources. Partners with senior living facilities, local housing authority, schools, churches and other organizations to increase health care education and accessibility.
Piedmont Columbus Regional
About: Piedmont Columbus Regional comprises three hospital campuses (the Midtown Campus, Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital and the Northside Campus), a freestanding cancer center and over 40 doctors’ offices.
Leadership: Scott Hill, CEO
“Our organization dates back to 1836 in a small building along the Chattahoochee River; today, we’re the region’s health care leader,” Hill says. “We are living real change and growing with our community.”
Areas of Service: Emergency and trauma, women and children, pediatrics, ICU, stroke, cardiology, cancer, inpatient and outpatient surgery, imaging and diagnostics, laboratory, therapy and more.
Community Involvement: Their Mobile Unit bus rolls out to care for the indigent and underinsured people of Columbus, performing blood pressure screenings and health education on diabetes, stroke, nutrition and more.
St. Francis-Emory Healthcare
About: For more than three generations, St. Francis-Emory Healthcare has served the health care needs of the Chattahoochee Valley, caring for expanding and diverse populations in Georgia and eastern Alabama.
Leadership Philosophy: St. Francis-Emory Healthcare invests heavily in our communities through the team members it hires and develops, the capital improvements we make in our facility, and we embrace our role as your primary health care provider, always aspiring to positively impact the health of those we serve.
Areas of Service: Offers a full range of inpatient, outpatient and emergency room services, including the region’s only open-heart surgery program. Excellence in women’s care and a premier provider of behavioral and mental health care. Home to leading internal medicine and psychiatry residency programs.
Community Involvement: Focuses efforts on health care disparities some face in the community including maternal health for African American women, access to crisis services for people experiencing mental illness, support of United Way activities and numerous other community partnerships.
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