The Board of Health meets this morning at 7:30 AM, according to the VDT calendar. There’s nothing about this on its own web page. Gretchen is there with the LAKE video camera.
-jsq
The Board of Health meets this morning at 7:30 AM, according to the VDT calendar. There’s nothing about this on its own web page. Gretchen is there with the LAKE video camera.
-jsq
Apparently the Hospital Authority is meeting tomorrow morning, although I can’t find any public notice and it’s not listed in the VDT’s calendar. In case you’re curious who these board members are, I’ve looked them up below.
According to its web page:
Hospital Authority
As a public hospital, an eight-member Hospital Authority governs SGMC. Both the City Council of Valdosta and the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners appoints the representatives who serve on the Authority. Each group appoints four representatives who each serve a 5-year term. Authority members are community leaders who serve the hospital voluntarily. It’s a labor-intensive job for which no Authority member receives any monetary compensation.In terms of governance, the Authority has the ultimate decision-making ability when it comes to the hospital. The Authority is subject to the Hospital Authorities Law of the Code of Georgia.
Notification of Open Meeting of the Hospital Authority
Regularly scheduled meetings of Hospital Authority occur on the third Wednesday of each month at 9:30am in the SGMC Executive Board Room unless otherwise posted.Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County Members
Here I’ve annotated the list from the Board’s website with pictures and some additional information of the sort that maybe the Authority would like to put on its website so we the taxpayers would know.
Continue readingAccording to their web page at SGMC, the Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County (VLCHA) has open meetings:
Notification of Open Meeting of the Hospital Authority
Regularly scheduled meetings of Hospital Authority occur on the third Wednesday of each month at 9:30am in the SGMC Executive Board Room unless otherwise posted.
They added that since I last looked back last August. Hm, maybe somebody should go to that open meeting and record it.
And don't forget they're having a public hearing on selling Greenleaf 9AM Monday 23 July 2012.
-jsq
The Hospital Authority is selling off a mental health and substance abuse treatment center: a public hearing 9AM 23 July 2012.
Update 8 July 2012: fixed date in title.
Found in Georgia Public Notice:
The Valdosta Daily Times
Lowndes CountyPUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PURSUANT TO O.C.G.A. 31-7-74.3
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PURSUANT TO O.C.G.A.
31-7-74.3The Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia will hold a public hearing regarding a proposed sale to Acadia Greenleaf, LLC, an affiliate of Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., 830 Crescent Centre Drive, Franklin, Tennessee 37067, the real estate, assets and operations owned by The Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia associated with its operation of the Greenleaf Center located at 2209 Pineview Drive, Valdosta, Georgia and the Greenleaf Outpatient Center, located 2217 Pineview Drive, Valdosta, Georgia. The public hearing shall be held on July 23, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. in Dining Rooms 1 and 2 on Level 1 at South Georgia Medical Center, 2501 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, Georgia 31603. At said public hearing, the subject matters required by O.C.G.A. 31-7-74.3 will be described, discussed and disclosed.
J. Randall Sauls, Secretary,
The Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County, Georgia
Walter H. New
Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 111
Quitman GA 31643
00030430
5/22,25;06/01/12
-gretchen