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Peak Named to State Board
    Jun 28, 2009

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Governor Sonny Perdue has announced that Bainbridge Memorial Hospital Administrator Jim Peak has been appointed to the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce.

James G. “Jim” Peak, 59, Bainbridge, Hospital Administrator Representative – Peak is the chief executive officer of Memorial Hospital & Manor in Bainbridge, Georgia. He served as a trustee and chairman of the board for the Georgia Hospital Association and is chair-elect of GHA’s Council for Rural Hospitals.

He is a board member of the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, member of the Rotary Club and the Decatur County School Board Foundation and previously served as a member of the Health Strategies Council for the State of Georgia. Peak earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree from Georgia Southern University. He and his wife, Bettie, have two sons.

The Georgia Board for Physician Workforce is a state agency responsible for advising the Governor and the General Assembly on physician workforce and medical education policy and issues. The 15 member Board works to identify the physician workforce needs of Georgia communities and to meet those needs through the support and development of medical education programs.

The Board's responsibilities include monitoring and forecasting the supply and distribution of physicians in Georgia; assuring an adequate supply, specialty mix, and geographic distribution of physicians to meet the health care needs of Georgia; coordinating physician workforce planning with state funding for medical education; and the development and support of medical education programs required to meet physician workforce needs.





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