mumc News

For the 12th consecutive year Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia, has been named one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals.

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) is the first hospital in Savannah to offer the Revo MRI™ SureScan® pacing system, the first pacemaker approved for use in certain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures.

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia, has been recognized for quality performance in a nationwide hospital quality improvement project.

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah Georgia is one of only five sites in the entire United States selected to participate in a pilot study for the TRIUMPH® Lumbar Disc for treatment of degenerative disc disease .

Raymond Rudolph, M.D., MPH, FACS, a breast surgeon at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia received an Outstanding Performance Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) .

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia, has been named one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals for the 11th consecutive year.

For the third year in a row, Memorial Health in Savannah, Georgia received the Patient Safety Excellence Award from HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

Memorial Health University Medical Center (MHUMC) has been designated by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGA) as a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement.

For the third year in a row Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia has received the American Stroke Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Silver Performance Achievement Award.

The breast care services at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (ACI) at MUMC in Savannah have been granted a full three-year accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC).

The Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute (ACI) at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia, has been granted a Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation by The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons.

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) is Savannah’s top-rated hospital, and is among the top 10 hospitals in Georgia for cardiac care, vascular surgery, spine surgery, stroke care, pulmonary care, critical care, and gastrointestinal care.

Memorial Health received a 2009/2010 Women’s Health Excellence award from HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. Only 169 hospitals received the award nationwide.

Memorial Health in Savannah, Georgia has been recognized for quality performance in six areas in a nationwide hospital quality improvement project. The Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) is a national pay-for-performance project .

MUMC,surgeon Christopher Senkowski, M.D., has removed a patient’s spleen through an advanced technique known as Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS). Only a handful of surgeons worldwide are able to perform complex spleen removal with SILS.

Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia, is the first hospital in the nation to offer a leadership and management focused fellowship in health information technology.

The Memorial Health Foundation board of directors has confirmed Linda Zoller, Zelda Tenenbaum, Richard (Toby) Moreau, and Nancy Sheets incoming president of The One Hundred, as new board members.

SAVANNAH – The Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) has named Memorial University Medical Center’s (MUMC) Patricia Lavely CIO of the Year. Lavely, senior vice president and chief information officer, was honored in the nonprofit category.

The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative has awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant to Memorial University Medical Center’s (MUMC) Dominique Broccoli, PhD. The grant will fund Broccoli’s sarcoma cancer research project.

Savannah’s MUMC Honored by Department of Defense for support of employees who serve in the Georgia National Guard and Reserve.

Michael Kaigler and Christopher L. Wixon, M.D., have joined the Memorial Health Board of Directors. Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) is a two-state healthcare organization serving a 35-county area in SE Georgia and southern South Carolina.