Preparing for Your Surgery Before Your Surgery Your time is important to us and our goal is to see you as quickly as possible. Patients are called back for procedures based on the arrival and availability of their physicians. For that reason, the order of signing in may not necessarily be the order of patients …
Gregory Steele, FNP-BC Gregory Steele, FNP-BC, has been a part of the Phoebe Family since 2003, and for the last six years he has been practicing as a clinical Nurse Practitioner. Greg earned his master’s in nursing with a concentration in family practice from Albany State University in 2012. Greg says he owes much …
Albany, GA | August 16, 2024 – Phoebe’s innovative partnership with Albany Technical College (ATC) to combat the nursing shortage and increase the number of healthcare professionals in southwest Georgia is now open. Hundreds of Phoebe and ATC leaders, elected officials, students, and community members attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Phoebe Living & Learning …
Albany, GA | August 15, 2025 – Two outstanding members of the Phoebe Putney Health System healthcare team, Aedan P. McDonough, MD, and Lauren A. Swain, NP have been named this year’s Phoebe’s Physician of the Year and Advanced Practice Provider of the Year. Their dedication to excellence, compassionate care, and professional achievements embody Phoebe’s mission …
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Sylvester, GA | March 12, 2026 – For Kimberly Blackshear, a mother of six, a routine trip to the pediatrician quickly turned into a life-or-death race against time. When her infant son, Keyng, was found to have dangerously low oxygen levels, he was rushed to Phoebe Worth Medical Center, a move that Kimberly credits with …
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Meet Madeleine
Meet Madeleine "Miracles really DO happen – I get to hug one every day!" Jennifer and Brent were shocked when they found out they were pregnant with identical twin girls. Madeleine and Elizabeth Rigsby were born five and a half weeks early on June 19, 2002. While everything seemed normal at birth, Madeleine’s pediatrician discovered …
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Phoebe Partners with Advocacy Resource Center And Highlights National Diversity Independence Day
Albany, GA | July 26, 2023 – Nicholas Daniel was just 18 when he moved on his own to Albany. He never really knew his parents and was raised primarily by his grandmother and an uncle in Lithonia. “I didn’t really have that many people to reach out to. I’m basically by myself, and I felt …
Albany, GA | June 21, 2023 – Seven new physician residents are now members of the Phoebe Family. Phoebe and community leaders welcomed the Phoebe Family Medicine Residency (PFMR) Class of 2026 to southwest Georgia at an annual ceremony on the health system’s main campus Wednesday morning. Over the next three years, they will train …
Albany, GA | June 8, 2023 – Phoebe is marking a milestone anniversary for its Heart & Vascular Services. Forty years ago, the cardiac team at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital performed the first open-heart surgery in south Georgia, expanding the availability of advanced, lifesaving care in this part of the state and leading to continual growth and …
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Albany, GA | May 15, 2023 – Phoebe has put in place a more open visitation policy for all its hospitals. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Phoebe implemented visitation restrictions that were necessary to protect its staff, patients and visitors. After a thorough review and re-evaluation process, Phoebe leaders decided to extend visitation hours and implement a …
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Albany, GA | April 27, 2023 – Georgia’s “Safe Haven” law, designed to protect newborns, gives criminal immunity to a mother who leaves a baby with a staff member at a hospital, fire station or police station. Phoebe wants to remind the public that all its hospitals are safe places for newborns under the law, and …
Albany, GA | April 11, 2023 – Most mornings, Kenneth Potts is up early and working in his woodshop on his property in rural Worth County. “I’m out here piddling before daylight every day. It’s my therapy. Ain’t many mornings I don’t see the sun rise,” he said. Each day, that morning sun reminds him of …
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