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Just got this in an email-- frim someone I TRUST!!

I was digging for info on the West Georgia Hospice (Phone: (706) 845-3905 Tollfree: (888) 368-3905) in Lagrange and check out the bold purple below, this is the same center that was over Woodside Hospice were Terri was held if I’m not badly mistaken. Not that this shows anything YET, but I’m still checking names of board members and affiliations; just to see if there might be something.

Plus, found this - the Facility Administrator at the hospice is Cathy Wiggins: Director of Hospice – who is also,,,

Cathy Wiggings, West Georgia Hospice, LeGrange – Pres of Board of Directors of

Georgia Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (GHPCO)

GHPCO is a committed member and supporter of the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End of Life Care, a partnership of providers, academics, business leaders and community members that has worked together for the past 5 years to improve end of life care in Georgia. The accomplishments of the Collaborative include community education through Georgia Health Decisions' CRITICAL Conditions program; support of physician, nurse and allied health provider end of life education and training; outreach to community organizations; research on current practices and the Emmy award-winning documentary Final Choices: Changing a Culture. (a change to the culture of death)

GEORGIA Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care Holds Planning Meeting

In an effort to focus its activities, be more inclusive of organizations around the state, and plan for its future, the Collaborative met January 21, 2004 at the Loudermilk Center for the Regional Community in Atlanta Georgia to create a plan for the next five years. The meeting was made possible through a Rallying Points Certificate and was facilitated by staff from the Hospice for the Florida Sun Coast - the south's Rallying Points Regional Resource Center. Representatives from more then 30 organizations participated, and committees were formed around several key areas, including governance and sustainability. It is hoped that the participation of new organizations and individuals will reinvigorate the Collaborative's efforts.

Final Choices: Changing a Culture Wins Emmy Award!

Final Choices: Changing a Culture won an Emmy for Best Medical Program at the 2001 Southern Regional Emmy Awards. The award was presented to Carol Fisk, Gerald Bryant, and Leigh Green. Final Choices was developed in September 2000 with the GEORGIA Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care to run on Georgia Public Television (GPTV) as a companion piece to On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying and was the winner of a National Headliner Award in May 2001 and a Georgia Association of Broadcasters Award in June 2001.

Our Beginnings
In late 1997, and with funding from the Georgia Coalition for Health, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, and the Georgia Department of Medical Assistance, we initiated active program involvement in issues related to end of life care. That initial effort has now organizationally evolved into the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End of Life Care and encompasses multiple, statewide programs including feasibility studies, quality interventions programs, and public and private sector policy redesign. (I just bet they do want to change policies)

Our Partners

· Georgia Psychological Association

· Georgia Hospice Organization

· Emory University School of Medicine

· Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of GA

· Medical College of Georgia

· Mercer University School of Medicine

· Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Georgia

· Morehouse School of Medicine

· United Healthcare of Georgia

· Medical Association of Georgia

· Georgia State Medical Association

· Georgia Hospital Association

· Georgia Department of Community Health

· Georgia Nursing Home Association

· Georgia Medical Care Foundation

· Georgia Health Decisions

· Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia

· Georgia Health Policy Center