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News Articles: Albany, Georgia

Atlanta Medical Center on Boulevard will close Nov. 1. (Wellstar Health System)

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Atlanta group could take over Augusta University hospitals

An Atlanta-area hospital system could take over the hospitals affiliated with Georgia's only public medical school under a deal announced Tuesday. Augusta University Health System says it has signed a letter of intent to join Marietta-based nonprofit Wellstar Health System.

December 28, 2022
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  • Associated Press
 A Georgia House legislative committee is looking for ways to address a lack of affordable housing for renters, entry-level homeowners and middle-class families. The committee is looking at how workforce housing could ease some of the pressure and what impact building and design standards are having on the market.

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Kia plant CEO tells state lawmakers affordable housing shortage hurting worker recruitment

Kia’s assembly plant in West Point opened in 2008 with more than enough workers available to produce the first cars. Now, it’s become much harder to fill the 500 new jobs needed to get a new compact SUV off the assembly line.

September 30, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Albany Museum of Art Katie Dillard unpacks a repaired painting by glass artist Dale Chihuly while mounting the show titled "Homecoming" recently.

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A new exhibit at Albany's Art Museum celebrates surviving a natural disaster

A new exhibit now open at the Albany Museum of Art this week celebrates the treasures in the museum collection and how they survived a 2017 tornado.

May 13, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Chaplain Will Runyon holds back tears as he speaks of the hardships and death amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak outside of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga., on Monday, April 20, 2020. The hospital has once again be inundated with COVID-19 cases since the onset of the delta variant, breaking last year's records.

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Pushed To Limit, Albany Hospital Continues To Break COVID Records

As the delta variant hits Georgia and across the country, Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany continues to break records for COVID-19 cases, a bleak flashback to last year when Albany was a global hotspot during the onset of the pandemic.

 

August 23, 2021
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  • Sarah Rose
Kids carry lunches

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As Schools Open In Southwest Georgia, Doctors Encourage Educators, Staff To Get Vaccinated

Albany-based Dr. Winston Price says if vaccination rates do not improve, schools will see outbreaks of the highly contagious delta variant of the virus. 

August 16, 2021
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Chaplain Will Runyon waits outside of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga., on Monday, April 20, 2020.

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For Albany Hospital, It's COVID Deja Vu All Over Again

Phoebe Putney Hospital in Albany, which was overrun last year in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is starting to come full circle again as the delta variant of the virus tears through America.

August 03, 2021
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  • Sarah Rose
More runway than line to wait for the COVID-19 vaccine at the mass vaccination site in Albany recently.

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Vaccine Success And Challenge In Georgia's First COVID-19 Hotspot

A year ago this week, the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in Albany. The city would become a global hotspot and one of the places that first showed that COVID-19 disproportionately kills Black people. Now Albany has the COVID-19 vaccine and something else to teach us.

March 09, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
From left: Michael Fowler, Winfred Dukes, Jon Ossoff, CaMia Hopson, Demetrius Young, Derrick Jackson

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  • Elections

The 'Black Belt' of Georgia That May Decide The Next U.S. Senate

On election night, it was the votes of Albany and the surrounding Black Belt, in which President-elect Joe Biden took nearly 70 percent of the vote, that contributed to Biden’s narrow win over President Donald Trump in Georgia’s final vote tally. And it may do so again in the state's U.S. Senate runoff election Jan. 5.

January 03, 2021
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  • Brad Bailey
Dr. James Black, head of emergency medicine at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany,   Ga, was the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday in the city that was once among the most severely affected pandemic hotspots in the world.

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Georgia's Early COVID-19 Hotspot Gets First Vaccine Doses

The Georgia city that was once one of the most severely affected COVID-19 hotspots in the world received its first virus vaccinations Thursday. 

 

December 17, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Barbara Rivera Holmes, Albany Chamber of Commerce

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Pilot Projects Target Economy, Health Care In Rural Georgia

Efforts to foster economic development and improve health care in rural Georgia are starting to pay off, a panel of business and academic leaders said Monday.

A public-private partnership launched last summer has begun pilot projects aimed at helping unemployed rural residents start their own companies, Barbara Rivera Holmes, president and CEO of the Albany Chamber of Commerce, said at the 32nd Biennial Institute for Georgia Legislators, an event held every two years in Athens to familiarize newly elected state lawmakers with issues they’re likely to face in the General Assembly.

December 08, 2020
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  • Dave Williams
Doctors in hospital

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Hospital CEOs To Gov. Kemp: Staffing Crunch Is Biggest Pandemic Challenge

The problems abound: Medical supply vendors are upping their prices, and there are occasional shortages of COVID-19 test equipment.

But Georgia hospital CEOs told Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday that their biggest challenge amid the pandemic is finding enough staff to treat people stricken by COVID and also take care of other patients.

December 03, 2020
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  • Andy Miller
Rescue dog leaving shelter

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Rescue Dogs Fly From Macon To New Homes During Pandemic Adoption Boom

Of the 360 dogs rescued from Georgia this year, about 200 of those recently adopted have traveled all the way by special transport vans from the southwest Georgia town of Albany. Earlier this month, 28 dogs and 19 puppies from Dougherty County arrived up north.

November 27, 2020
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  • Liz Fabian
A medical technician records details about a blood sample, given as a part of the Augusta University antibody study in Dougherty County.

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  • Health

Studying Antibodies — And Coronavirus Immunity — In Georgia's Former 'Hotspot'

A one-time global COVID-19 hotspot, Albany, Georgia, is now the site of a coronavirus antibody study aimed at understanding viral spread and immunity.

October 02, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Callie Evans is a teacher and cheerleading coach at Monroe Comprehensive High School in Albany, Ga. She and her colleague Audri Williams rapped about virtual learning and the COVID-19 pandemic in popular music videos on Instagram.

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Georgia Teachers' Back-To-School Rap About Virtual Learning Goes Viral

Callie Evans and Audri Williams rap about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic from the empty halls of Monroe Comprehensive High School, backed up by mask-wearing, move-busting cheerleaders.

August 19, 2020
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  • Rachel Treisman

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