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Ballard Hudson Middle School students Jalexia Maloy, left, and Jayden Parker, center, collect food during their lunch period in their roles as volunteer workers in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program.

In Bibb County, there’s a pilot program of students feeding students. It’s looking like a success

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 25, 2023
Yellow Rock Farm owner, Paul Cardwell visits his female alpacas and llamas on his farm on December 5, 2022 in Macon, Ga.

Governor signs bipartisan legislation to conserve Georgia farmland

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
April 23, 2023
Navicent Health, The Medical Center of Central Georgia merged with North Carolina-based Atrium Health in 2019. It is now called Atrium Health Navicent.

Jury awards former Navicent executive, surgeon almost $5 million in civil suit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 14, 2023
A Bibb County sheriff deputy's car with blue lights activated near a pedestrian crosswalk on Jeffersonville Road in Macon.

Sound but less fury: Georgia lawmakers leave town with betting, vouchers, med cannabis undone

By Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder
April 3, 2023
A two-pack box of Narcan nasal spray pictured on the front desk of the Macon Inn. A Bibb County Superior Court order issued in November 2022 requires that the hotel keep a minimum of 10 doses of Narcan and make it available for guests upon request. The order also required that the hotel post instructions on how to use the live-saving nasal spray in all common areas on the property.

As overdose deaths rise, Georgia Public Health officials respond with Narcan kits in motels, fentanyl test strips

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 27, 2023
An ambulance is pictured outside the Medical Center, Navicent Health, (then The Medical Center of Central Georgia) in this 2009 file photo. Federal law requires all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to medically screen and stabilize any patient in need of emergency care.

Georgia has a plan to support families caring for dementia patients

By Ellen Eldridge, GPB News
March 22, 2023
Teens attend Operation Lighthouse, a program to prevent teen dating violence.

Pandemic Stress, Gangs, and Utter Fear Fueled a Rise in Teen Shootings

By Liz Szabo, KHN
March 21, 2023
Scott Seigel, the Market Preseident at Truist, speaks to press outside of the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital in Macon, Ga. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. “We couldn’t be more excited to see all the smiles on the faces this morning that the children had when they came up to have their picture taken,” he said of the chance for patients to take photographs with the Braves World Series Commissioner's Trophy. (Photo by Evey Wilson Wetherbee)

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commits millions to grow rural pediatric care

By Sofi Gratas, GPB News
March 2, 2023

Georgia Power got the ‘gold mine’ … we got the ‘shaft’

Dink Nesmith, Georgia Recorder
February 27, 2023
Dale Folwell talks to reporters about hospital prices in June 2022. Behind him sits interim State Health Plan director Sam Watts.

How much should nonprofit hospital CEOs make? NC Treasurer’s report fuels debate.

Michelle Crouch and Rose Hoban, Charlotte Ledger and North Carolina Health News
February 20, 2023
Medical Center, Navicent Health, medical lab technicians Diane Jones, left, and Jeri Fountain, use the new Roche Cobas 6800 testing machine that will allow the hospital to do all its COVID-19 testing in house.

“Tripledemic” on decline in Georgia

Rebecca Grapevine, Capitol Beat News Service
February 20, 2023
Builder Shawn Stafford looks at a photo of 835 Forsyth St. before the facade collapsed late Monday night in downtown Macon.

Macon-Bibb County considers blanketing downtown with surveillance cameras

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
February 17, 2023
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