Support Groups
Support groups provide emotional encouragement for people who share the same set of circumstances. The value of support groups has been shown to benefit patients, and families, through faster recoveries and increased well-being.
One of the following support groups may be just the one you need to help you better understand and cope with your condition.
Next Step Cancer Support Group
Woman to Woman Support Group
Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group
Brain Injury Support Group
Better Breathers Support Group
Smoking Cessation Class
Building Blocks to Diabetes Management
New Moms Nursing Support Group
La Leche League Meeting
Survivors of Suicide Support Group
The Association of Sickle Cell
Stroke Support Group
Next Step Cancer Support Group
For patients, family members, friends and community
as a learning source about the different types of cancer.
John B. Amos Cancer Center
Community Room, 2nd Floor
Call 706-571-1368 for more information.
Woman to Woman Support Group
For women treated for gynecological cancers.
John B. Amos Cancer Center
Community Room, 2nd Floor
Call 706- 571-1368.
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Man to Man Prostate Cancer Support Group
Man to Man is a support group which focuses on men who have had experience with prostate cancer, either their own or a family member or friend. This support group, which previously met at the American Cancer Society, now meets at the John B. Amos Cancer Center. Carl Burrell, care coordinator at the John B. Amos Cancer Center, leads this group.
John B. Amos Cancer Center
6-7 p.m., 3rd Tuesday of each month
Community Room, 2nd Floor
Call 706-320-8714 for more information.
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Brain Injury Support Group
For brain injury patients and their families.
Meets 6:30-8 p.m., 2nd Wednesday and 4th Thursday of each month.
Columbus Regional Conference Center
at The Medical Center.
Call 706-565-9298 for more information.
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Better Breathers Support Group
For people who are living with emphysema or other
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD).
Rotates meetings at Columbus Regional,
Doctors Hospital and St. Francis Hospital.
Call 706-660-6545 for more information.
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Smoking Cessation Class
John B. Amos Cancer Center
For more information, please call 706-571-1102.
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Building Blocks to Diabetes Management
9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Led by Certified Diabetes Educators, this foundational diabetes self-management class offers effective ways to help participant's learn how to manage their diabetes, focusing on basic meal planning, medical management, and lifestyle.
3rd Saturday of each month
Doctors Hospital Education Center
Call 706-660-6545 to register.
For more information, click here.
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New Moms Nursing Support Group
A support group for new breastfeeding moms.
Every Wednesday
4 p.m.-6 p.m.
Every Thursday
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Columbus Regional Lactation Center
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La Leche League Meeting
A mother-to-mother breastfeeding support group, facilitated by a trained LaLeche League leader. All nursing mothers and babies are welcome.
Second Tuesday of every month
10-11:30 a.m.
Doctors Hospital Main Street Education Center
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Survivors of Suicide Support Group
The purpose of the Survivors Of Suicide Support Group is to help those who have lost a loved one to suicide resolve their grief and pain in their own personal way.
The group plans to tentatively meet the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.
6PM
John B. Amos Cancer Center (Conference Room)
For more information, contact Pattie Ketchum at 706-571-1917 or e-mail pattie.ketchum@crhs.net.
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The Association of Sickle Cell
Those with sickle cell disease or sickle cell traits as well as their family members are invited to attend.
This group will meet on the Fourth Tuesday of every month
7PM
Columbus Regional Conference Center at The Medical Center
For more information, call 706-565-4513 or 706-681-1058 or e-mail sicklecellcolumbus@gmail.com.
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Stroke Support Group
Led by community volunteers who are also stroke survivors. This support group is currently for our inpatients that have suffered a Stroke or a Tramatic Brain Injury (TBI) and heir family members/significant others.
Group meets every Sunday at 3:00PM in our 1st floor classroom at the Rehabilitation Center.
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