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Hospital tops tri-state cord blood collectors

Northeast Georgia Medical Center puts would-be waste to use

Nurse Pam Weast, left, visits with patient Courtney Bagwell and her newborn son Callen Chavez in their room.

0720cord2 — Nurse Pam Weast, left, visits with patient Courtney Bagwell and her newborn son Callen Chavez in their room.

Savannah King

Updated: Jul 20, 2012, 3:30 AM

Published: Jul 20, 2012, 2:17 AM

Callen Chavez wasn’t even 1 day old yet when he started helping other people. Before Callen was born Tuesday morning, a nurse asked his mother, Courtney Bagwell, if she wanted to donate his cord blood to LifeCord, a public cord blood bank. Bagwell said she’d recently learned about the process and uses of cord blood banking in a biology class at Gainesville State College where she is studying to become a nurse.

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Gainesville man arrested, charged with interfering with school bus after dropoff goes awry

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The Times

Updated: Apr 3, 2025, 9:13 PM

Published: Apr 3, 2025, 8:51 PM

A Gainesville man was arrested after he followed a bus twice and held the bus doors open trying to get a child off the bus, according to authorities.

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