Glynn County health leaders outline local emergency services, pharmacy discounts and funding concerns at town hall

Leaders from Southeast Georgia Health System, Coastal Community Health and the Glynn County Department of Public Health told a Glynn County town hall meeting that local partnerships are expanding access to emergency, primary and preventive care — but that federal and state funding changes could squeeze that capacity.

Christy Jordan, chief executive officer of Southeast Georgia Health System, said the nonprofit hospital has invested in services she summarized as the community’s “hearts, lungs and brains” — cardiac care with rapid EKG and on-call teams, advanced pulmonary embolism interventions that can remove large clots in a cath lab and a teleneuroradiology-supported stroke pathway. “Our revised mission is to advance the health and well‑being of our community,” Jordan said, describing the system’s role delivering services that reimbursement does not fully cover.

Jordan said the system serves a community of about 85,000 people and recorded about $108,000,000 in uncompensated care in the last fiscal year (year ended April). She described on‑campus patient lodging built with a donor gift (the Nunley House) that provides free or donation‑based rooms for patients and families during cancer treatment or other prolonged stays. Jordan also described a new internal‑medicine residency accredited last year that began with 13…