Blog Posts in January, 2007

While emergency room overcrowding and long waits to receive care plague hospitals across the country, Atlantic General Hospital has continued to improve efficiencies and shorten wait times in its emergency department. Efforts to streamline care along ...

Atlantic General Hospital is keeping pace with changes in healthcare, as the latest medical and technological advances have made surgical incisions ever smaller, diagnostics speedier, and recovery times shorter. Next month, some of those advances are ...

Berlin’s Atlantic Health Center walk-in clinic expands hours to accommodate the community Atlantic ImmediCare, an affiliate of Atlantic General Hospital and Health System, is now closed for the remainder of the winter months. Any walk-in ...

Jack Gillespie, M.D., a physician with the Ocean Pines Primary Care Practice, was recently recertified by the American Board of Family Practice. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Dr. Gillespie completed his residency at ...

Munna Garg, M.D., a physician with the Ocean Pines Primary Care Office, recently earned his board certification from the American Board of Pediatrics. Until 2005, when Garg joined the Atlantic General Health System practice, the area offered little ...

Michael Franklin, president and CEO of Atlantic General Hospital, has earned the new credential of FACHE as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, an international professional society representing close to 30,000 healthcare ...

Thursday, February 1 AGH Smoking Cessation Program Atlantic General Hospital, Conference Room #1; 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. Final support group session offered following the smoking cessation class held in conjunction with Worcester County Health ...

Residents of Pocomoke and the surrounding area can now consult with a surgeon who is a little closer to home. Thomas Lubeski, D.O., a surgeon with Atlantic General Health System, has begun office hours on Thursday mornings at the Pocomoke Imaging and ...

Foul weather didn’t keep brave penguins away The 13th Annual Penguin Swim saw a great turnout, despite the threat of wind and rain. Hundreds of spectators and penguins crowded the beach during a break in the weather to once again take a plunge ...