Augusta, GA
Augusta burn center is first ever to use new skin cell technology
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The JMS Burn Center is the first in the world to use a new regenerating skin cell technology to help burn and wound patients.
When wounds don’t close on their own, doctors usually use a skin graft to close them. It’s a piece from a patient’s body that is not affected by a burn.
RECELL GO uses technology that allows doctors to spray your own healthy skin cells on your wound or on top of an expanded skin graft.
The system is designed to treat burns and full-thickness wounds.
The technology sets itself apart from past methods by using less of a patient’s own skin cells and automating the process, and improving efficiency in the operating room.
This gives doctors more time to focus on patient care.
It also uses a significantly less amount of donor skin, resulting in less pain for patients.
Patients experience two times greater healing with RECELL GO, along with less scarring.
All of this means less time spent in the hospital.
“What we want to do is just be able to provide the best care to our patients, and take them from something that can be sometimes devastating to bring in a patient not only through the burn but bringing it back and having a good quality of life,” said Dr. Shawn Fagan, JMS Chief Medical Officer.
He also says this can be used for any type of wound or burn, regardless of size.
“We care for a large amount of smaller burns, and smaller burns are just as important as the larger burns in terms of attaining closure and controlling that discomfort afterward,” said Fagan.
The technology will be used daily. The first procedure was done on May 31, and 11 procedures have been done since then, helping heal seven patients overall.
Dr. Nraj Doshi, the principal inventor of RECELL GO, hopes to see this technology implemented across the country.
“The whole point of us developing so that it’s automated, is the fact that it becomes a lot easier to adopt across hospitals in the U.S,” said Doshi.
Initial concepts for the system began just three years ago. Now, the JMS Burn Center has 16 units.
Each unit can be used up to 200 times, helping hundreds of patients right here in the CSRA.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The South Augusta YMCA will not renew its lease at the Tobacco Road location, the Y confirmed.
The shopping center is being sold, and the current lease ends in October.
The Y has not announced a final day at the current location. Officials said they plan to announce that date and next steps for South Augusta later this month.
The YMCA said it still plans to serve South Augusta after the lease expires.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A man who was previously wanted for questioning in an Augusta deadly shooting has now been charged with murder in the case, according to authorities.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says Kemfton Quewanaki Kenon, 27, was arrested on Friday in connection to the shooting death of Khyla Rodriguez, of Augusta.
Kenon is booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center and charged with murder and possession of a firearm during a crime, according to jail bookings.
Rodriguez, 25, was found dead after deputies received a call about a shooting on May 15 at 1:11 a.m. on Cameron Drive.
The Richmond County Coroner’s Office said Rodriguez was pronounced dead at 2:27 a.m.
Kenon was previously wanted for questioning in the case and was located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. He was interviewed and arrested on an unrelated warrant.
Deputies were also interviewed two other subjects in the case. They were not arrested in the case.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – People who live in South Augusta are raising concerns about the future of the Family Y on Tobacco Road.
Officials say the facility has been operating at a loss for years, and have had a low number of memberships. The location also has a new owner. The cost of the lease is too high and the facility is also in need of renovations, which are said to be costly.
“The reality is we couldn’t afford the current lease that we were in,” said Catie McCauley, president and CEO of Family Y of Greater Augusta. “Over the last 10 years we’ve been subsidizing this lot. So we got to look at a model that we can sustain for the next several generations not just the next couple years.”
The location is set to close in October, but officials say they are working with community members and contractors for a new building that they can move into and are committed to staying in South Augusta.
Photojournalist credit: Gary Hipps
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