Georgia-based telehealth networking agency Global Partnership for Telehealth recently honored four partners with awards at its 9th Annual Conference in Jekyll Island, GA. The organization gave Piedmont Health System in Atlanta the Award for Excellence in Telehealth and honored Susan McLendon, with Meadows Regional Health System in Vidalia, with the Telehealth Leadership Award. Furthermore, GPT named Joe Tallent, Telehealth Coordinator at Effingham Health System, its Telehealth Coordinator of the Year and honored the Packer Health Clinic, based in the Colquitt County School System, as its School-Based Telehealth Program of the Year.

“The conference is a great opportunity to honor those in our network who are true telehealth champions, the ones who go the extra mile,” said Keri Brantley, Global Partnership for Telehealth’s Conference Director. “It’s GPT’s way of saying ‘thank you’ for the hard work that our partners put into their programs.”

Close to 150 registrants watched as Global Partnership for Telehealth distributed the awards on Wednesday, March 21st to close out the conference at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. Brantley said that honoring the award-winning telehealth practices and coordinators was an excellent way to close out a very successful conference.

“Without partners like this,” Brantley said, “these amazing conferences could not happen. We’re very proud to have them in GPT’s network.”