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Week of July 11, 2011
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Week of July 11, 2011
Power of PeachCare | CBAY | Health Advisor | First Person | Restaurant Survey
The Power of PeachCare for Kids
When you meet Martin Michaels, M.D., in his pediatrics office in Dalton, Ga., it is obvious how much he cares about the youngsters he treats. He is a firm believer that all children need optimal care. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids and their benefits for families who have little or no health insurance. Dr. Michaels opened PedsCare P.C., where his solo practice has grown over the past 22 years into one that has 45 staff members, including five pediatricians and seven nurse practitioners. He and his colleagues serve 11,000 active patients of whom approximately 6,500 are covered by Medicaid and about 1,000 are covered by PeachCare for Kids. Yet he frets that there are many children who remain uninsured and not receiving optimal preventive care. Read more
CBAY - Giving Children and Parents New Hope

Parents just naturally want to do the right things for their children: ensure they are safe and warm, grow up physically and mentally strong, teach them to make wise decisions, and help them mature and become good parents themselves. Sometimes as a child grows, he begins to demonstrate behaviors that indicate emotional disturbances or mental illnesses, such as an inability to get along with other children or adults, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other severe conditions. A child's behavior sometimes becomes so severe that professionals recommend a psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF), where s/he will receive intensive treatment and be looked after on a 24-hour basis. Read more
DCH Welcomes Innovative Health Advisor Technology
The Personal Health Advisor kiosk (PHA kiosk) is making an office visit to The Department of Community Health's (DCH) Office of Health Information Technology. This state-of-the-art interactive digital system is used to create personalized health assessments and deliver related health education information.
This is the state's first PHA kiosk for people of all ages and education levels, and for those with limited technology experience. DCH supported the development of this groundbreaking health care technology through collaboration and development with Atlanta's National Health Museum. Read more
FIRST PERSON: Where's the blessing?
I have incredible parents. The two of them would give whatever they could to help us kids. They taught us to stand on our own two feet. They taught us to think. They taught three boys how to be men and two girls how to be women. Most importantly, they showed us all how to love.
To try to show our parents how amazing they are, the five of us recently banded together and remodeled their home. With the storm doors installed, my parents' home was finally finished on June 7, 2011. Seven days later, on June 14, my parents' home burned down. Read more
Restaurant Survey Says: Try These Favorites

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Thank you to all who participated in DCHNOW's unscientific poll of your top three favorite restaurants within a quick walk from 2 Peachtree Street.
Besides learning about some new (at least new to us) restaurants, DCHNOW found that the tastes of employees at 2 Peachtree run the gamut from fine dining to hole-in-the-wall joints with most of your favorites falling somewhere in between. Read