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DR. CINDY GEORGE, Medical Director for Lamb Healthcare Center, was recognized with a potluck luncheon provided by the hospital staff on Thursday, July 6, 2023 for delivering 620 babies during her 10 years at the hospital. (Photo by Ann Reagan)
Dr. Cindy George, Medical Director for Lamb Healthcare Center, was recognized with a potluck luncheon provided by the hospital staff on Thursday, July 6, 2023 for delivering 620 babies during her 10 years at the hospital. Hospital staff, and friends joined to congratulate her.
Dr. George came to the Lamb County facility immediately following completion of her residency in the Texas Tech Medical System in 2013. When asked if she had ever considered moving on to a larger medical system she immediately said “I certainly didn’t want to go to anything bigger because I don’t like getting lost in the system.” She also stated that it is much easier in a smaller system to facilitate policy change. In a big system you have to get 3 to 6 hundred people to submit to any changes and with a smaller system with two shifts of nurses, it is easier to get everyone on board to make policy change. She praised the hospital administration and CEO Cindy Klein for being supportive and allowing her to be creative and to try new ideas such as doing DOT physicals or botox. She credited Rolando Rodriguez, M.D and Chief of Staff, and Dominique Gagnon, M.D. as well as the whole staff for their excellent work as well. She stated “We are always looking for new nurses.”” She has more autonomy in a rural system and Dr. George stated “I love doing it all”. “That’s why you come to do rural medicine.” She loves doing clinic, going to the nursing home. She loves her geriatric patients, and even more than delivering babies, she loves the continuity of seeing the mommas before, during the process, and being able to see her mommas and babies afterwards because “none of that is work. That is just joy”.
“The well child’s are not a job or like work. It’s getting to see my babies.” She tells those babies “I know every heartbeat you’ve had.
I enjoy the technical parts of it, the delivery or doing a C-Section, but the continuity is really where it’s at.”
Dr. George encourages everyone in the area to support the Lamb Healthcare Center. For the outlying areas such as Muleshoe and outlying communities. We are here to serve and that much closer than Lubbock, if you don’t want to wait 12 hours in the emergency room in Lubbock or find yourself relying on EMS. We are here. We have a really good team at LHC.