Georgia Department of Community Health
Major Services and Information
Medicaid/PeachCare for Kids program, Public Employee Health Benefits, Health Planning, Women's Health, Minority Health, Georgia Commission on Men's Health, and Rural Health Services.
Constituent Communities
Medicaid recipients (low-income, aged, blind, disabled), state employees and health care providers
Major Divisions and Offices
Medical Assistance, Public Employee Health Benefits, Health Planning, Office of Women's Health, Office of Minority Health, Office of Rural Health Services, Georgia Commission on Men's Health, Composite State Board of Medical Examiners, Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, and State Medical Education Board.
Leadership
DCH has 492 full-time employees and nine part-time employees under the leadership of Commissioner Tim Burgess and his leadership team:
- Carie Summers - Chief Financial Officer
- Neal Childers - General Counsel
- Chief Information Officer
- Richard Greene - Director, Planning and Fiscal Policy
- John Upchurch - Director of Plan Management, State Health Benefit Plan
- Mark Trail - Director, Medical Assistance
- Debbie Hall - Chief Operating Officer
- The Director of Communications
- Laura Jones - Director of Legislative and External Affairs
