HealthTeacher went down to Georgia
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 7:40 am
From BusinessWire:
Community Health Works announced that teachers in Houston and Bibb County will be the first of seven central Georgia school districts to have access to HealthTeacher’s comprehensive K-12 online health education curriculum with the goal of improving the health literacy of children and teens in Central Georgia. The partnership will eventually encompass approximately 4,200 teachers in 105 participating schools across 7 districts.
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CCA goes grassroots in Georgia
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 8:01 amRepresentatives of Corrections Corp. of America helped residents of Jenkins County, Ga., lobby for the Nashville company, one of a number of firms in the running for a 1,000-bed prison that is seen as a crucial job generator in a high-unemployment region.
SEE ALSO: A release from CCA announcing its willingness to build in the area — in the spring of 1999.
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Local home health venture buys SunLink assets
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 2:45 pmIn a tale of two suns, Madison-based Suncrest Healthcare has signed a deal to buy three home health care businesses from SunLink Health Systems for $3.3 million. The deal with Atlanta-based SunLink (Ticker: SSY) will lift SunCrest’s locations to more than 20.
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CCA moves forward in Georgia
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 12:57 pmCorrections Corp. of America has tapped Turner Constructrion to manage the building of two jail projects in the Peach State. The contracts are worth about $52 million.
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Former HCA exec to advise Georgia company
Posted on May 22, 2009 at 11:42 amCharles Evans, who ran HCA’s Eastern Group until late 2006, will help Atlanta-based Jackson Healthcare deliver its staffing, consulting and IT services to hospitals around the country.
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Synovus unit takes over failed Georgia bank
Posted on April 24, 2009 at 6:44 pmBank of North Georgia, an Atlanta-area sister of The Bank of Nashville, will assume more than $50 million in deposits and $30 million in assets formerly belonging to American Southern Bank. It’s the fifth bank failure in Georgia this year.
More accusations against CCA
Posted on April 10, 2009 at 8:21 amA Georgia watchdog group will this morning unveil a report criticizing conditions at the company’s Stewart Detention Facility, which contracts with the federal government.
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Merit pay in the courtroom
Posted on at 8:00 amThe Supreme Court earlier this week agreed to hear a Georgia case that centers on a judge’s ability to award attorneys extra fees if their work is deemed to be especially good.
The class-action lawsuit against Georgia, settled in 2005, prompted the state to reduce worker case loads, improve investigations into abuse and prevent overcrowding in foster homes. Gov. Sonny Perdue, one of the defendants in the lawsuit, authorized hiring 500 additional child welfare workers.
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HCA Georgia legal challenge falls short
Posted on April 2, 2009 at 11:11 pmA Palmyra Medical Center, an HCA hospital in Albany, Ga., has seen a putative antitrust lawsuit against its larger competitor dismissed. A federal judge called part of the hospital’s allegations “highly speculative.”
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CCA to manage ICE facility in Georgia
Posted on March 9, 2009 at 11:36 amAP has the story:
Corrections Corp. of America, which designs, builds and manages prisons, jails and detention facilities, said Monday it has received a contract to manage detainees for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Georgia facility.
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Regions taking over failed Atlanta-area bank
Posted on February 6, 2009 at 4:24 pm
The FDIC turns to Nashville’s biggest bank to acquire a four-branch bank south of Atlanta that regulators closed this afternoon. It’s the second time Regions has been the white knight in Georgia. Last summer, it took over Integrity Bank.
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LifePoint seals Georgia deal
Posted on February 2, 2009 at 7:34 amThe Brentwood-based hospital operator (Ticker: LPNT) has closed on its $80 million acquisition of a Georgia hospital. The price is $10 million less than another company with local ties agreed to pay 18 months ago.
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Standard Candy bringing 250 jobs to town
Posted on January 20, 2009 at 10:55 pm
The Goo-Goo Cluster maker is shutting down its Georgia facility that needed too much investment to stay up to date. Standard Candy last summer leased 100,000 square feet of distribution space near the airport and recently said it will add to its manufacturing plant.
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Still very much in the middle of the woods
Posted on January 2, 2009 at 5:13 pmSynovus Financial (Ticker: SNV), the parent of the Bank of Nashville, says it needs to hike its loan loss reserves and charge-offs, mainly because of Atlanta’s housing market.
UPDATE: Uh, it’s actually worse – by $100 million.
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