SGMC engineering,
facilities honored
VALDOSTA – South Georgia Medical Center honored its engineering and facilities department as Health System Heroes during the monthly Hospital Authority of Valdosta/Lowndes County meeting.
Rick Oelkers, director of engineering, Jed Allen, construction manager, and the entire team were honored for their “essential work in construction and facilities maintenance over the last year,” hospital representatives said in a statement.
The department has facilitated a multitude of large projects in recent months, including the completion of four major renovations. This includes a build-out for the graduate medical education quarters at main campus, a new SGMC internal medicine practice for SGMC’s residency program, a redesign of…