W. Mansfield Jennings, Jr., a native of Hawkinsville, Ga., was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of MCG Health, Inc. by the Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Allan Virgil. 

Jennings is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ComSouth Corporation, a telecommunications holding company.  He is also the Chairman of SunMark Community Bank.  He is the past Chairman of Taylor Regional Hospital and a past member of the Board of Directors of Plant Cellular Company in Tifton, Ga.

His professional affiliations include being Past President and Director of the Georgia Telephone Association; a member of the United States Telephone Association; a member of the Independent Telephone Pioneers; and a member of the Organization for the Protection and Advancement of Small Telephone Companies.

He is a Regent of the University System of Georgia; the Past President and Charter Director of the Hawkinsville-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce; the Past President of the Hawkinsville Rotary Club; a Past District Governor of Rotary International; a member of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base; and a member of the Board of Directors of United Pulaski, Inc.

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 MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation.  The physicians of MCG Health System are community physicians, faculty employees of the Medical College of Georgia or employees of the MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation, 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 MCG Physicians Practice Group Foundation and community physicians to deliver the highest level of primary and specialty health care.  For more information, please visit www.MCGHealth.org.