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Upson Family Medical Center welcomes to the provider staff George L. Capo, DO. Dr. Capo was most recently employed by LiveOn Medical Center in McDonough, GA, however, he is well known to the Thomaston community. As a physician of Family Medical Center, Dr. Capo provided patient care in the Thomaston and Griffin area from 1998 to 2017. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Columbus State University in Columbus, GA, and received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine...

Upson Regional Medical Center welcomes Jeffrey (Jeff) Tarrant as Chief Executive Officer effective May 6. Tarrant has more than three decades of experience in healthcare and was selected after a national search conducted by the Upson Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees in conjunction with HealthTechS3, a management and consulting company that has partnered with Upson for more than 20 years. Tarrant most recently served as Chief Executive Officer for AllianceHealth Durant,...

We are very grateful for Auxiliary's generous $16,000 donation for the purchase of a LUCAS device for Upson's Emergency Department. This lifesaving equipment provides benefit to cardiac arrest patients by delivering guideline-consistent, high quality chest compressions even under difficult conditions for extended periods of time. With the LUCAS device, fatigue, individual variations or psychological factors are removed from CPR, and there is no longer a need to switch providers every two...