Thank you to those who supported and participated in this year’s PAC Golf Tournament, held November 2nd at Chateau Élan.  A special thank you to our major sponsors who helped to make this a great event; The Southeast Council of GHCA, The Sanford Company and UHS-Pruitt. Also, a big thank you to US Foods, who helped kick off the day with a great breakfast. 

We couldn’t have asked for better weather for a day on the course.  Congratulations to our winners:

1st Place Gross
Bryan Foy, Matt Kirk Charles Berry and Ben Downing

1st Place Net
C.L. Johnson, Ronny Crump, Jerry Swiacki and Bob Grover

2nd Place Gross
Nick Williams, Adam Morris and Tommy Ryan

2nd Place Net
Ron Westbury, Joe Westbury, Alan Hardwick and Korry Smith

Closest to the pin
Randy Meade

Longest Drive
Tommy Ryan

Member facilities and companies are invited to create profiles and submit job opportunities via the form at www.ghca.info/jobs. Once registered you will be able to create jobs, view applicants and search the resume database.

Job seekers can search for available positions, add resumes, and create alerts for positions as they are posted. Create a profile at www.ghca.info/jobs

The 2012 AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award application process has begun! The Quality Award program is based on the criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence program, the nations premier performance excellence and education program. The Quality Award program encourages the application of systematic approaches to produce consistent results. Applicants will gain a true picture of their organizations’ strength and weaknesses and receive customized feedback to improve performance.

The 2012 application packets are available on the Quality Award website. Two important changes have been made to the Silver application process. First, the Silver criteria has changed from a focus on the Core Values and Concepts of the Baldrige criteria to reflect the Baldrige criteria directly. Second, a new pre-screening protocol has been implemented at the Silver level. All Silver applications will be subject to a pre-screening process prior to being forwarded to the Examiner teams for review.  Applications that do not meet the pre-screen Criteria will receive a foundational feedback report.

2012 Program Deadlines (all deadlines are at 8 p.m. EST):

• Intent to Apply process opens – November 1, 2011

• Intent to Apply Deadline – January 12, 2012

• Bronze Application Deadline – February 15, 2012

• Silver Application Deadline – March 1, 2012

• Gold Application Deadline – March 1, 2012

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MONROE, Ga. — A small group of friends and relatives on Friday celebrated with cake and music as Besse Cooper, who is listed as the world's oldest person, turned 115 on Friday.

They gathered at Cooper's Monroe nursing home, where she enjoyed two small slivers of her birthday cake and heard well wishes from loved ones, said her daughter-in-law Edith Cooper.

Besse Cooper was born in Tennessee and moved to Georgia during World War I to find work as a teacher.

She has 12 grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, Luther, died in 1963.

She was declared the world's oldest in January. In May, Guinness learned that Maria Gomes Valentin of Brazil was 48 days older. Valentin died June 21.

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The credit hours for the convention have now been tabulated. You can get your hours by either:

1. effective 9/1/2011, by logging in to the website and visiting http://www.ghca.info/ceu (on the menu under 'Member Area | CEU hours')
2. emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
3. calling GHCA at 678.289.6555

Please have your Georgia Nursing Home Administrator License number or the number assigned to you on your scan card when you contact us.

In order to view the credit hours report on the GHCA website you will need to be registered on the site. If you have not already registered you may do so here. If you have registered and have forgotten your user name or password you can fill out the user name/password reset form here. After registering on our site if your hours are still not visible it means your email address was missing from our existing credit hours database; please use the missing credit hours form and we will update the data.