Congratulations to our sweet Laura and her husband! They got married on August 26th and her name is now, MRS. Laura Rentz!!!
Congratulations to Mrs. Liz in our surgery center! Her son and his wife welcomed this beautiful baby boy (Mrs. Liz’s first grandchild) into the world! He was born on September 1st! Welcome to the world, Giovanni Sebastian!
Congratulations to our beautiful Rae and her fiancé, Edward Comerford on their engagement! They will be getting married January 27,2024!!
Congratulations to Ericka and Guch Greene!! This beautiful couple tied the knot on 09/16/2023!! Didn’t they look amazing?! #GoingGreene
Chasitie and her husband Daniel will be celebrating 10 years of marriage on October 5th! Congratulations, y’all!! We love to see it!
Congratulations are also in order for Shelby Lee and Idali Ayala!! Shelby is the new Business Admin Assistant and that she’ll be working with Melisa doing receipts and other fun tasks and Idali is our new Surgery Coordinator! Great job, ladies and congratulations on your new roles!!
Shelby Lee – Business Admin Assistant
Idali Ayala Surgery Coordinator
Fundraiser Opportunities
Tift County High School’s FCCLA Group is hosting a book drive and is asking the community to lend a helping hand to collect gently used and new children’s books! The books are being collected now – January 2024 and will be distributed to students in the Tift County School System from Grades K-5! If you’d like to donate to this wonderful cause or if you would like more information, please email hannah.ridgeway@tiftschools.com or give her a call at 229-387-2475!
Upcoming Events!
The 2023 Howard Center Breast Cancer Warrior & Survivor Event will be held here at Main on Thursday, October 5th from 4pm-6pm!! Please invite anyone that you know who may being battling breast cancer, who has fought breast cancer and won or if you know someone who has lost someone to breast cancer, this event is for them!
The Howard Center will be participating in The 2023 Carnival of Knowledge hosted by The Literacy Volunteers of Tifton-Tift County on Tuesday, October 10th at 06:00pm! If you are interested in being on a team, please email Bekka Reese or Melisa Newell 🙂
Let’s Taco ‘Bout HooHoo Sister’s Night Out!
On September 12th, TWC and THC Main got together for a real FIESTA! We had tacos, queso, rice and salsa….we had a Macarena dance competition (congratulations to our dancing queen, Bonnie who WON!), we beat up a piñata, attempted to play Bunco (congratulations, Tiffany on being our Bunco winner!), we mingled and talked about our day and enjoyed each other’s company! We truly had a great time!
Hoo Hoo Halloween Bingo Night
Alright guys and ghouls! Mark your calendars for another HooHoo Sister’s Night Out! This month’s fang-tastic get together will be a Halloween Bingo party filled with ghoulish treats, spooky decor, scary good prizes and a truly bewitching atmosphere! Come dressed in your best costume and have a thrilling time!
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time: 05:30pm – 07:30pm
Location: To be announced
2023 UOG Halloween!
It’s Spooky SZN, y’all!!! As you guys know, we LOVE Halloween here at UOG and we love a good competition! We hope that you’ve got some scary good costume ideas brewing! There will be an email sent out the day before with instructions on how to enter your costume into the contest! Winners will be announced on Halloween afternoon! We can’t wait to see what you all come up with! We’re sure that it’ll be FANG-tastic!!!
Tackling Hunger
October is Fight Food Hunger Month and all month long, we’ll be Tackling Hunger by doing a canned food drive! Here at Main, we have a friendly little competition going on where 5 collegiate teams (Georgia Bulldogs, FSU Seminoles, Auburn Tigers, Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida Gators) will be going head to throughout the month to see which team can bring in the most items! All in the name of good fun and tackling hunger in our communities! We encourage each office to reach out to their local food pantries and see how you can help tackle hunger! Not just this month, but every month!
Recipe of the month!
Honey Glazed Chicken
Ingredients
¼ cup honey
2 tablespoons soy sauce
⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite-size pieces
Directions
1.Gather all ingredients.
2.Whisk honey, soy sauce, and red pepper flakes in a bowl; set aside.
3. olive oil in a skillet over medium heat; cook and stir chicken in hot oil until lightly brown, about 5 minutes.
4. Pour honey mixture into the skillet; continue to cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink in the center and sauce is thickened, about 5 minutes more.
5. Serve hot and enjoy!
New to the UOG Crew!
Jessica Power Marketer – Covington
Ashley Meyer Medical Assistant – Albany
Kaitlyn Yawn Ultrasound Tech – Douglas
Shakyah Miller Medical Assistant- Warner Robins
Kala Hodges, FNP-CProvider – Waycross
Ultrasound: Rachel FlemingRachel has been more than willing to go the extra mile this month. She has offered to help cover our neighboring Northern offices when needed. Rachel has also taken on a new role this month of taking care of FMLA and has done so without hesitation. She is the definition of a team player and we are so grateful to have her as a part of our ultrasound team. Rachel has also taken on a new role this month of taking care of FMLA
ADD in for all Northern offices! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to The Howard Center Rachel!
OB Department: Shala WynnThank you, Shala for all of your hard work in OB and for always doing whatever you can and need to do to help OB run smoothly. She’s always eager to try and learn new things. The patient love her and her compassion for them. Keep doing great!!!
TWC: Debbie HillDebbie has done an AMAZING job with our mammogram scheduling! She keeps our patients happy, always goes out of her way to help patients, and never hesitates when our providers ask for something. She is going to be taking on a new position this month due to her excelling at her job. She also helps company morale by baking us sweets! We love Mrs. Debbie and are so happy she decided to become a part of our team. We are excited for all that she will accomplish with our company!
Howard Diet: Taylor TurnerHoward Diet Employee for September is Taylor Turner, she is Front Desk at our Waycross office and has helped run things down there in the Howard Diet as well. She is so good with our patients and we love her! Thank you Taylor for all your hard work!
Front Desk: Lorena TorresLorena is our Lawrenceville front office receptionist. She truly is AMAZING. As the Lawrenceville office grows busy and busier Lorena continues to grow with them! She has gone above and beyond this month. She prepares for each day so that it is able to run as smoothly as possible. She sent new patient paperwork packets out to all of our new patients on the schedule days before they got to the office so that our patients had time to fill them out before coming. This was a HUGE HELP! It made the wait times less and helped that rest of the clinic staff get a head start! She definitely shined bright this month! The Lawrenceville office makes a great team! I am so happy to have Lorena on my team! Thank you for all you do!
Provider: Katherine Carew, FNPCongratulations to Katherine Carew, FNP for winning the Provider Excellence Award for September! Katherine is very dedicated to the care of her patients in the Lawrenceville office. I had the pleasure of having her with me Tifton office during her training . She’s very professional and proficient in her new role at this satellite office. Being able to run an office and coping with all new patients with a big smile. Thank you Katherine
Moultrie Nurse: Nicole WellsNicole is an outstanding nurse and she has an positively impacted in our Moultrie location. She goes above and beyond for her patients. We are so lucky to have you!
Tifton Nurse: Rae WesleyRae is an amazing nurse in our Tifton location. She goes above and beyond to ensure her work duties are completed in an efficient and profession manner. She is compassionate, kind and offers to help others often, We are so lucky to have you!!
Surgery Coordinator: Shelly MartinezShelly is such an asset to our UOG family. She has taken on the role of traveling Surgery Coordinator. Shelly continues to ask “what else can I help do?” She not only helps the NPs, she also makes sure WCAS packets are turned in timely, she covers the front desk for lunch if needed, she will help MA as well. This month she booked Health Fairs for our marketing team as she was helping in the office. She did this without hesitation. She is such a team player and it is so appreciated by all of us.
Insurance: Shelby HardyFor the past month Shelby has been helping me with training the newer and less experienced employees. Although she is new herself, she has a lot of knowledge when it comes to insurance and that has been a huge blessing. I’m grateful for her willingness to assist her co-workers with their issues, it’s not her problem but she goes out of her way to figure out the solution. She is just the person our insurance department needed. She truly deserves this award.
Manager : Paulo VargasThe last month Paulo has had to deal with upgrading our computers in order for us to move forward with Greenway. That on top of all the other demanding task we all ask him to do on a daily bases. And then if that isn’t enough…I asked him to help us decorate our “Boujee room”!!! And so far he’s not complained about it! I’m super grateful for Paulo this month and how he handled wearing multiple hats!!! Our “Boujee room” wouldn’t look the same without his input!
Rochelle Baker
Marketer
$250 and a Trophy!!
Rochelle has been in our Athens market for 4 months now. She has been away from her Waycross home to help build our newest clinic. Over this time she has continued to build our clinic with some amazing patients. She has trained two new employees, booked her schedule along with helping others book their schedules. UOG is truly blessed to have an employee with the compassion Rochelle has for this company and our patients.
Jessica Power Marketer – Covington
Ashley Meyer Medical Assistant – Albany
Kaitlyn Yawn Ultrasound Tech – Douglas
Shakyah Miller Medical Assistant- Warner Robins
Kala Hodges, FNP-CProvider – Waycross