Actions Taken by the Georgia Board of Funeral Services at its February 9 Meeting

Macon, Ga.—The Georgia Board of Funeral Services met on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

The Board voted to approve the following applicant for a funeral director and embalmer license:

• Michele Fiorelli, Springfield

The Board voted to approve an application for a name change for the following funeral establishment:

• Rollins Friendly Funeral Home, Inc., Cochran

The Board voted to approve the following requests for grace periods to replace the facilities’ funeral director in full and continuous charge:

• Knox Funeral Home, Atlanta
• Pope Dickson & Son, Jonesboro

The Board voted to approve the following courses for continuing education:

• 100% Education by McKissock:
• Ethics for Funeral Service Professionals
• Bloodborne Pathogens and Needle-stick Safety
• Funeral Practices Past and Present
• OSHA and The Funeral Director
• Professionalism for the Funeral Industry
• The FTC Funeral Rule
• Formaldehyde Monitoring and the OSHA Standard
• Crisis: The Role of Funeral Directors
• Marketing for the Funeral Director
• AIDS Education
• Balancing Your Life: Revitalizing Your Funeral Director Career
• Gupton-Jones:
• Mortuary Law: Duties of the Funeral Director
• Georgia Eye Bank: Working with Funeral Directors
• Licensure and Inspection
• Cremation
• OSHA
• Grief Counseling
• Matthews International Casket Division:
• Cremation
• NFDA:
• Certified Preplanning Consultant (CPC)
• CPC Correspondence

The Board approved the following orders to accept fine money for inspection violations:

• Alvie Coes Funeral Home, Unadilla: $100 for failure to maintain one operable motor hearse and/or combination hearse/ambulance with current Georgia registration for the transportation of casketed human remains at the establishment.
• Donald Trimble Mortuary, Atlanta: $50 for failure to equip all embalming rooms with a sink with drain opening and non porous sanitary cover into a sewerage or septic tank.
• Garrer Funeral Home, Louisville: $100 for failure to maintain a minimum of eight adult caskets within the display room on the premises of the establishment.
• Hicks & Sons Funeral Home, Reynolds: $50 for failure to contain in each embalming room 24 bottles arterial fluid and 24 bottles cavity fluid.
• Litman Funeral Home, Pearson: $600 for failure to equip all embalming rooms with hot and cold running water, a permanently installed back flow preventer for the hydro aspirator; failure to maintain one operable motor hearse and/or combination hearse/ambulance with current Georgia registration for the transportation of casketed human remains at the establishment; failure to conspicuously display a current biennial renewal license for the establishment, embalmer, funeral director and any apprentices. 
• Williamson Mortuary, LLC, Riverdale: $650 for failure to equip all embalming rooms with non-absorbent sanitary floor and walls, to equip all embalming rooms with a sink with drain opening and non porous sanitary cover into a sewerage or septic tank and to have a card or brochure in each casket stating the price of the casket.

The Georgia Board of Funeral Services will hold its next meeting Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Professional Licensing Boards Division office in Macon.

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