b'SGMCTIMELINE2006Emergency Services moved into a new The Mid-80s 40-bed ER, which is a part of SGMCs designation as a Joint Commission Certified The maternal-child unit wasPrimary Stroke Center. SGMCs CODE STEMI modernized and renamed theprogram for heart attack patients is a model Birthplace, which includes birthingfor emergency medical training. SGMC is also rooms for all phases of childbirth,recognized for rapid cardiac catheterizations along with traditional separate roomsand the regions only high-quality open-heart for labor, delivery, and recovery. SGMCsurgery program.also completed a $1.3 million expansion and renovation of the SGMC laboratory. 20111991 Further expansion of SGMCs health system The $6 million Langdale Place, awas completed, including the acquisition of senior living facility, opened. the 45-bed Smith Northview Hospital. The hospital also introduced a $2.1 million robotic system, which gives physicians the ability 1996 to perform minimally invasive surgeries that SGMC added a Cardiology Center withwere ordinarily performed using laparoscopy.diagnostic testing, a state-of-the-art heart Catheterization laboratory, a2013monitor bank, a Cardiac Progressive Unit and Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. The new Dasher Memorial Heart Center and Patient Tower opened. The $65 million, 2001 130,000-square-foot facility consolidated cardiology services and new, specialty-care SGMC began its open-heart program,nursing units into one easily-accessible and in 2004, two all-digital cath labslocation. Also, in 2013, Berrien County were added to better manage theHospital officially became part of SGMCs increasing number of cardiac patientshealth system.treated at SGMC.Leading: Ronald Ronnie Dean was appointed CEO of South Georgia Medical Center in August 2019.38 SG MAGAZINE | FALL 2020 BUSINESS + CULTURE 39'