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News Articles: healthcare access

Governor Brian Kemp alongside Fulton County board Chairman Robb Pitts.

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  • Health Care

New emergency room coming to South Atlanta aims to fill health care gaps

Grady Health Systems broke ground on a freestanding emergency room in Union City on Wednesday, as part of larger plans to improve access.

April 10, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
resources

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  • Health

Houston County to offer monthly public health screenings at family resource space

A partnership between Houston County Schools and the county health department is bringing primary health care closer to where children, and their adults, spend time.

August 23, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Nurses attend to patients in this historical photo of the children's ward inside Wheatley-Provident Hospital, a Black hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened in 1918, but, like most Black hospitals, it closed following the federal campaign to desegregate hospitals in the 1960s.

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  • Health

Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

Hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. closed after passage of the Civil Rights Act when health care became integrated. Black communities lost a source of employment and pride.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sausser
Once it's built, the Living and Learning Community will house nursing students from Albany Technical College right across the street from Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, G.a.

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  • Health

South Georgia training program will prepare paramedics for more advanced care

It's the first to meet new licensure requirements for paramedics that the state Department of Public Health says it intends to issue next year. 

July 16, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Community members and local leaders of Jeffersonville, G.a. gather at the groundbreaking of an expansion to the federally qualified health center in town. The extra space will allow providers to bring more speciality care to the county which ranks in the bottom 10 for health outcomes in the state.

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  • Health Care

Once ranked last in the state for health care, Twiggs County is expanding access

A years-long local collaboration is behind the expansion of a federally qualified health center in Jeffersonville. 

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Medical student Emily Hartley from Reynolds talks to her neighbors at the ribbon cutting for the Mercer Medicine clinic in Taylor County.

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  • Health

After sitting empty for over a decade, a health clinic in Taylor County is opened again with help

 It’s the latest clinic to open as part of the Mercer University School of Medicine's efforts to strengthen rural health care. 

December 04, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Ady Barkan speaks at the premiere of his documentary <em>Not Going Quietly</em> in August 2021 in Los Angeles.

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  • Obituaries

Ady Barkan, activist who championed health care reform, dies of ALS at 39

The activist and attorney had long fought for progressive causes. After his ALS diagnosis in 2016, Barkan became a leading voice in the fight for health care reform — even as his health deteriorated.

November 02, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Texas judge to rule on 'abortion pill'; More on Trump and Ralston's 2020 call

Thursday on Political Rewind: A Texas federal judge says he’ll rule soon on the use of a pill that induces more than half of the abortions in the U.S. Plus, new details on the 2020 phone conversation between former President Donald Trump and late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston.

March 16, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
kemp stands with doctors

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  • Health

Nearly every Georgia county faces a shortage of primary care providers

Georgia ranks in the top third of states lacking enough primary care physicians to meet the needs of medically underserved areas.

January 17, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
hospital image

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  • Health Care

Millions of adults and children will likely be re-evaluated for Medicaid eligibility in 2023

An expected end to the federal COVID-19 public health emergency next year means low-income Georgians should prepare for Medicaid evaluations, says the Georgia Department of Public Health

December 31, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
The homepage for the new Georgia Access website set up by the state government this fall.

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  • Health

Georgia establishes its own health insurance portal, Georgia Access 

ATLANTA — After failing to win federal approval to exit the federal insurance marketplace earlier this year, Georgia has established its own health insurance portal directing people to private insurers and brokers to buy health insurance. 

December 30, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Family Bridges Healthcare is hiring CNA's on Friday, December 6th.

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  • News

A new initiative aims to bring more certified nursing assistants into the workforce in Georgia

The Georgia CNA Career Pathway Initiative was prompted by a statewide shortage of the vital members of the health care team of a resident in a long-term care facility: certified nursing assistants.

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Devon Zwald
Second-year family medicine resident Rickey Patel performs a hearing exam on a newborn at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, GA, on June 25, 2022. Doctors in unopposed residency programs, meaning they're the only residents at the hospital, often have more opportunities to work closely with patients and attending physicians.

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  • Health

How rural residency programs for doctors can help solve the health care shortage

Many rural counties in Georgia don’t have even one primary care physician. That’s a problem in a state that ranks near the bottom of the list in multiple health indicators. But as GPB’s Sofi Gratas reports, some residency programs in South and Middle Georgia have been successful in bringing doctors to places that don’t have enough providers. 

 

August 02, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
President Biden on Tuesday pardoned three people and shortened the prison terms of 75 more.

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  • National

Biden takes his first actions on clemency with 3 pardons and 75 commutations

Tuesday's pardons and commutations are part of a broader White House effort to make the criminal justice system more fair – a goal Biden made part of his 2020 presidential campaign.

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson and
  • Ayana Archie
A nurse checks a baby in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. More than 300 health facilities lie within conflict lines or areas that Russia claims to control, according to the World Health Organization.

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  • World

The WHO says Ukrainian health care is under attack, and it needs more funds to help

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

March 17, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
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