CEO Austin meets with Senior Services North Fulton

Roswell, GA (March 22, 2007) – North Fulton Regional Hospital CEO Joe Austin met with a representative of Senior Services North Fulton to learn about the organization and its activities and to present the annual foundation grant.

   “North Fulton Regional Hospital has been a tremendous support to Senior Services,” said Judy Squires, Executive Director of Senior Services North Fulton. 

   The hospital has been involved with the organization for the past eight years as a sponsor of the annual Senior Services Golden Gala. Austin hopes to continue this relationship and looks forward to the gala, scheduled to take place April 14. Attendees of the gala will be able to participate in a silent auction which boasts several intriguing items such as a week-long stay in Tuscany, Italy.

   Senior Services North Fulton serves the community by offering a variety of programs for seniors. Among these are the Meals on Wheels program where volunteers deliver meals five days a week to seniors in their homes. The organization also hosts different activities in their Alpharetta, Roswell and Sandy Springs locations and provides homemaker services including light housekeeping and laundry. Senior Services North Fulton is one organization North Fulton Regional Hospital is proud to support through the Tenet Health Care Foundation.

   North Fulton Regional Hospital (NFRH), part of Tenet Georgia, is a 167-bed, acute-care hospital located on Highway 9, Alpharetta Highway, in Roswell. Opened in 1983, NFRH serves North Fulton and surrounding counties through its team of over 1000 employees, 450 staff physicians and 250 volunteers. NFRH is a state-designated Level II trauma center and provides a continuum of services through its centers and programs, including neurosciences, orthopedics, rehabilitation, surgical services, bariatric surgical weight loss, gastroenterology and oncology. The hospital is fully accredited and also is certified as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.

   To learn more about North Fulton Regional Hospital and its efforts in the community, visit www.northfultonregional.com .