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So you are confused about Medicare Insurance – Here are some facts.
By Mark Fine
Your Senior Insurance

Medicare is a health Insurance program that provides benefits for people 65 and older as well as certain people affected by disabilities.  It consists of the following choices:

Part A: In order to qualify for Part A, a person must have worked 40 quarters (or 10 years).  Part A helps cover hospital in-patient care, skilled nursing care, home health care and Hospice.  A deductible of $1,216.00 for days 1-60 in hospital was in place for 2014.  Cost sharing costs (days 61-90) is $304.00 per day. Part A covers the first 20 days in a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF).  For days 21 – 100 there is cost sharing by the individual of $152.00 per day.  There is also cost sharing for certain home health and hospice care.

SGHS & Brookwood Alumni Multi year
‘Party on the Beach & Reunion!’
Class of ‘82 is turning 50 – and we’re all going to ROCK!
Saturday, September 20 at 7:00pm at Lake Lanier

The class of 1982 is turning 50 this year. Mary Walsh Stone and Connie Covington Brands are both graduates of Brookwood who transferred from South Gwinnett to be part of the first ever Brookwood senior class. They thought it would be a blast to have a sort of Birthday Party. The “50 Rocks Party!” will be at held at Gianni’s Italian Bistro at Lake Lanier Islands. South Gwinnett and Brookwood graduates are welcome. 

‘Bosom Buddies’ to speak at book reading

Snellville – They’re called the Bosom Buddies. Authors Gail Mosby and Kathie Van Landingham have been pals since they were 2 years old, back when they were making mud pies in a makeshift oven.

2014-2015 Gwinnett Senior Leadership class

Reid Mullins Scholarship recipient for 2014
By Staff Reports

The Reid Mullins Scholarship Committee is proud to announce the recipient for 2014 is Kimarah Laurent.  She is a graduate of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville.  Kimarah plans to attend the University of Georgia in the fall pursing a degree in International Affairs.