MCG Health System recently won two awards during the Metro Augusta Parent’s 2004 Breastfeeding-Friendly Community Awards.

Dr. Michelle Brenner, a pediatrician and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant at the MCG Children’s Medical Center, was named one of the area’s most breastfeeding-friendly pediatricians. The health system was named the area’s most breastfeeding-friendly workplace due to the establishment of a breastpump break room for employees that was developed by Dr. Brenner, Dr. Kathryn McLeod and lactation consultant Teresa McCullen.

The awards were handed out in recognition of World Breastfeeding Week. Winners were selected from nominations submitted by the community.

MCG Health System is composed of three separate organizations -- MCG Health, Inc. and the clinical services offered by the faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the members of the Physicians Practice Group. The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians and faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the Physicians Practice Group, not employees of MCG Health Inc. MCG Health, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation operating the MCG Medical Center, MCG Children’s Medical Center, the MCG Sports Medicine Center, MCG Ambulatory Care Center, the Georgia Radiation Therapy Center and related clinical facilities and services. MCG Health, Inc. was formed to support the research and education mission of the Medical College of Georgia and to build the economic growth of the CSRA, the state of Georgia and the Southeast by providing an environment for faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia and the Physicians Practice Group and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care. For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.