Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) welcomes new members to several affiliated boards for 2017:
Northeast Georgia Health System Board
- LeTrell Simpson – president, Con-Sen-Sus Consulting
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Board
- Craig Brown, MD – chief of staff, Northeast Georgia Medical Center; pulmonologist, Northeast Georgia Diagnostic Clinic
Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Board
- Larry Dudas, MD – inpatient medicine physician, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Inpatient Medicine
- Suhel Patel, MD – inpatient medicine physician, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Inpatient Medicine
- David Yates, MD – internal medicine physician, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Toccoa Clinic
The Medical Center Foundation Board
- Pepper Brown, MD – general surgeon, Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Surgical Associates
- LeeAnn LoCicero – hospice volunteer; hospital volunteer; president, The Medical Center Auxiliary
- LeTrell Simpson – president, Con-Sen-Sus Consulting
- Philip Wilheit – chief executive officer, Wilheit Packaging
Northeast Georgia Health System Advisory Board
- Susan Baker – director of marketing and contact center, Habersham EMC
- David Miller – program director and graduate professor of Healthcare Management, Brenau University
- Heather NeSmith – stay-at-home mom and volunteer teacher and librarian, The Torch Christian Academy (Cornelia, Ga.)
- Gail Ormsby – retired social worker
- Charlotte Sosebee – director, Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections
- Harold Webb – vice president, Regions Bank (Winder, Ga.)
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ABOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a non-profit on a mission of improving the health of our community in all we do. Our team cares for more than 800,000 people across the region through three hospitals and a variety of outpatient locations. Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has three hospital campuses – NGMC Gainesville, NGMC Braselton and NGMC Barrow – with a total of 713 beds and medical staff members representing more than 50 specialties.
NGMC is rated Georgia’s #1 Hospital for the third consecutive year and among the top 10 in the nation according to a 2016 study by CareChex, an independent healthcare quality rating service. Learn more at www.nghs.com.