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Your favorite activities make everyday life your own, and bone or joint pain can keep you sidelined. At Wellstar, our skilled and caring team is ready to help you find relief and get back to life with less pain and more freedom.
Orthopedic specialists here offer complete care for all types of bone, joint and soft tissue injuries and conditions. From diagnosis and treatment through rehabilitation and recovery, we’ve got your back.
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Wellstar Health System to Acquire Mountain Lakes Medical Center
About Wellstar Health System
Wellstar Health System is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the Southeast and a growing destination for care across Georgia and beyond. Guided by its PeopleCare culture, Wellstar is advancing a bold vision to deliver exceptional quality, safety and patient experience while expanding access to world-class medicine. Today, more than 35,000 team members, one of the region’s largest physician networks and 11 hospitals serve communities through more than 400 care locations, including cancer centers, rehabilitation facilities, urgent care centers and a digital care network that extends specialty expertise to community and rural hospitals. Wellstar’s nationally recognized programs span cardiology, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics and other specialties, bringing advanced treatment closer to the people who need it. Through partnerships that include Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia, Wellstar helps educate future clinicians, accelerate discovery and translate research into real-world impact. Recognized as one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, Wellstar combines clinical excellence, innovation and collaboration to improve the health and well-being of every person it serves.About Mountain Lakes Medical Center
Mountain Lakes Medical Center believes in providing the highest quality, compassionate care in a world-class hospital setting. As a Level IV Trauma Center and full-service, 25-bed acute care hospital, Mountain Lakes Medical Center is staffed by highly trained medical professionals who are passionate about improving healthcare and redefining how our community thinks about health and wellness. Our dedicated doctors, nurses, and staff are committed to a truly person-centered approach—serving patients, families, our local community, and employees with kindness and respect every day. Serving the Northeast Georgia and the Western Carolinas, our hospital represents a bold step into the future of healthcare. We are committed to creating a healing environment that fosters collaboration and puts people first.
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BD and Wellstar Advance Patient Care and Safety with Medication Management Powered by AI
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced a strategic partnership with Wellstar Health System to enhance the safety and quality of medication delivery for patients across its hospitals and care facilities.
Through this collaboration, Wellstar is building a more connected approach to medication management from the pharmacy to the bedside by combining BD Pyxis™ Pro medication dispensing technologies with BD Alaris™ Infusion Systems. By adopting the latest in dispensing and infusion technology, Wellstar is empowering clinicians with greater accuracy, real time visibility and streamlined workflows, helping them spend less time on manual processes and more time delivering safe, dependable care to their patients.
Powered by artificial intelligence, the new BD Pyxis™ Pro Dispensing Solution with Analytics in BD Incada™ provides Wellstar with enterprise wide visibility into medication inventory, including on demand insights through natural language queries. Customizable dashboards convert data into actionable intelligence, helping clinicians identify trends to ensure medication availability, reduce medication waste and optimize labor efficiency. And with BD Alaris™ Interoperability, Wellstar clinicians can use barcode scanning to verify patients, medications and smart pumps; send infusion orders directly from the electronic medical record and receive infusion statuses back into the EMR.
“At Wellstar, our focus is on delivering safe, innovative care to every patient, every time,” said Susan Wright, vice president of pharmacy services at Wellstar. “Partnering with BD to implement this technology strengthens our ability to focus on patient-centered programs and empower our teams to deliver care with confidence and compassion.”
Wellstar also participates in the Strategic Development Council for BD’s Medication Management Solutions business, where Wellstar leaders contribute expertise across enterprise pharmacy operations, medication safety, nursing and informatics. This input helps inform and shape future innovation at BD and drives next-generation solutions to meet the real world challenges faced by large, complex healthcare systems.
“BD is proud to partner with Wellstar to advance medication safety and help ensure patients receive the right medications at the right time,” said Connor Bates, worldwide president for medication management solutions at BD. “By integrating BD Pyxis™ and BD Alaris™ technologies, Wellstar is setting an example of how health systems can achieve connected, intelligent medication management that benefits both patients and clinicians.”
This collaboration reflects a shared vision to strengthen safety, efficiency and patient outcomes across the continuum of care, while positioning Wellstar as a leader in leveraging technology to improve the health of the communities it serves.
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When Community Meets Care: Why Resources Matter and How Wellstar Find Help is Changing Lives
“Jane” sits quietly in the exam room, clutching the discharge papers the doctor has just handed her. Her blood pressure has improved, but she is still overwhelmed with worry—not because of the diagnosis, but because of what awaits her outside the hospital.
She has a new prescription in her hand, but no reliable transportation to pick it up, and a diet plan to follow, but an empty fridge at home. She has advice to rest, but a job that didn’t offer paid time off, which will mean no way to pay her utilities or her rent.
Her doctor has done everything right medically—yet Jane still is not set up completely for a positive health outcome.
This is the moment where health systems face a truth we cannot ignore: Health doesn't begin in the exam room, and it doesn’t end there either. It lives in kitchens, workplaces, neighborhoods, families and within our communities. It is shaped by whether someone can afford groceries, find safe housing or get to their appointments.
These everyday circumstances—known as social determinants of health or non-medical drivers of health—affect nearly every outcome. They determine whether treatment plans succeed, whether chronic conditions worsenand whether families thrive or struggle. In fact, research shows that up to 80% of health outcomes are tied to social determinants, not clinical treatment alone.
And for too long, patients like Jane have been left to navigate these challenges alone.
A Shift in Healthcare: PeopleCare
Imagine if every healthcare visit didn’t only diagnose health needs, but also understood life needs:
- “Do you have access to healthy food?”
- “Are you worried about housing or utilities?”
- “Do you need transportation to follow-up appointments?”
This is the movement taking place today: healthcare shifting beyond treating illness to supporting everyday well-being. Medicine can lower blood pressure, and community support can keep it down.
Enter Wellstar Find Help: Support at Your Fingertips
To bring this vision to life, Wellstar has introduced Wellstar Find Help—a tool that connects individuals with thousands of community resources including:
- Food assistance
- Housing and utilities
- Transportation
- Employment support
- Mental health services
- Senior and caregiver programs
It’s a pathway, a bridge and a lifeline. All resources can be found very easily by entering the ZIP code for the person in need within the community. Refer your friend, a family member, a fellow church member or even yourself if you need it.
Here’s what makes it truly powerful. Anyone can use it—anytime, anywhere, from home or phone, and it’s built directly into Wellstar’s medical record system. The tool is publicly available and can be used anonymously—no account or medical record is required. When someone is sitting in a room like Jane was—overwhelmed, uncertain, quietly carrying life burdens—the care team doesn’t just send them home with instructions.
They can help them right there, in the moment by connecting them to real support before they walk out the door.
Healing happens in community
When community resources meet medical care, everything changes. A father on dialysis doesn’t miss treatment because a ride fell through. A mom recovering from surgery has healthy meals for her family. A senior gets help with housing instead of silently struggling. People don’t just survive. They thrive because sometimes the strongest medicine is hope.
Sometimes hope looks like a bus pass, a food pantry referral or a team member who says, “You don’t have to figure this out alone.”
Wellstar Find Help will assist us in figuring it out together or at least give us a place to start. Wellstar Find Help is more than a website. It’s a community initiative that suggests care doesn’t end when the hospital doors close, that supports every person's right to dignity, access and opportunity and acknowledges that healthcare isn’t just about treating bodies—it’s about overall well-being. For patients like Jane, that can make all the difference.
Community health challenge: working together to change lives
For community partners
You are the backbone of healthcare beyond the medical building walls. Our community’s food banks, housing organizations, transportation services, senior programs and faith-based organizations provide stability and opportunities for patients to heal as a whole. We invite you to:
- Claim your organization: share your programs, capacity and preferred referral pathways.
- Help us lift barriers proactively rather than reactively.
- Stay connected.
Healthcare needs you, and our communities thrive when we all work together. Together we can create and sustain a network of support that meets people where they are and then lifts them where they deserve to be.
Visit wellstar.findhelp.com to learn more and find resources.