Georgia Trend Selects CEO Joel Wernick

Press release from the issuing company

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Looking over my Georgia Trend magazine this week, it was no surprise to see Joel Wernick, president and CEO of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, on the magazine’s list of 100 most influential people.

If you are talking health care in Southwest Georgia, the conversation starts with Wernick.

He’s a polarizing guy. You’re either with him or against him, it seems.

As the man at the top at Phoebe, and the one with the biggest salary, he’s the one to blame when anything goes wrong at the area’s biggest hospital.

Read more: Albany Herald