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Anna Adams, Georgia Hospital Association

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Georgia hospital execs open to CON reform

Representatives of Georgia hospitals expressed support Tuesday for streamlining the state’s certificate of need (CON) process for licensing new health care facilities and medical services without scrapping the law entirely.

September 13, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Augusta University Medical Center

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An Atlanta-area hospital system has completed its takeover of Augusta University's hospitals

An Atlanta-area hospital system has completed its takeover of Augusta University's hospitals. Both the University System of Georgia and Marietta-based Wellstar Health system say the deal will mean greater financial stability, more medical training and better care.

August 30, 2023
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  • Associated Press

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  • Health

She paid her husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

Eloise Reynolds encountered a perplexing reality in medical billing: Providers can come after patients for more money well after a bill has been paid.

August 29, 2023
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  • Samantha Liss
Conference room

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Georgia lawmakers prepare to take on state rules that limit new hospital construction

State lawmakers are settling in for a long look at how Georgia regulates health care services and whether drastic changes should be pursued again next year.

June 14, 2023
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  • Jill Nolin
 Taylor Regional Hospital

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Georgia’s rural hospitals use tax credit donations as Band-Aid

Health care officials say the state program needs improvement.

 

June 13, 2023
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  • Aaleah McConnell
Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center

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  • Health Care

COVID-19 deaths sped the closure of Randolph County’s only hospital. What happens now?

Low reimbursements, high numbers of uninsured patients and staffing shortages are impacting rural hospitals nationwide. But in Randolph County, Ga., access to critical lifesaving care has all but disappeared.

June 07, 2023
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  • Brad Bailey
Wellstar closed Atlanta Medical Center last year. The shuttered 460-bed hospital stands in the heart of Old Fourth Ward.

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Mayor extends ban on redevelopment of Atlanta Medical Center site

Mayor Andre Dickens signed an executive order on Monday extending the ban on new development at the Atlanta Medical Center site in Old Fourth Ward.

April 19, 2023
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  • Dyana Bagby
President and CEO of the Phoebe Putney Health System, Scott Steiner, holds a mock-up of the housing project against his office window. He hopes the partnership will encourage more nursing students to stay in Albany, G.a., and grow the workforce both at Phoebe Putney and in the region.

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A South Georgia hospital hopes to ease the nursing shortage with a new housing development

The partnership between Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital and a local technical college aims to encourage student nurses to live, and one day work, where they’re trained.

April 11, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center

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Georgia Senate seeks to allow rural hospitals without permit

Georgia senators voted to allow new hospitals to be built in counties with fewer than 50,000 residents without state permission. The measure is particularly aimed at allowing an undisclosed entity to build a new hospital in the home county of Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.

February 27, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives for President Biden's State of the Union address earlier this week. Fetterman was hospitalized on Wednesday and discharged on Friday.

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Sen. John Fetterman is discharged from the hospital and will return to work Monday

Tests ruled out a stroke and found no evidence of a seizure. Fetterman went to the hospital after feeling lightheaded at a Senate Democratic retreat.

February 10, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
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
Ambulances from surrounding counties fill the emergency entrance Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, Ga. Like most in Georgia, the hospital experienced a surge in COVID-19 patients as the state set a new mark for infections on Tuesday, Aug. 31.

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  • Health Care

Georgians’ high stroke rate combined with string of hospital closings hurts chances of survival

According to a Georgia Department of Public Health report, Georgia had the 12th-highest stroke death rate in the U.S. in 2020. With 4,821 deaths, it was the fourth-leading cause of death that year. And racial disparities are not the only issue making Georgians more vulnerable to stroke. A glance at the map of hospitals participating in the stroke registry shows wide gaps across parts of the state that are distant from big cities.

November 14, 2022
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  • Ross Williams
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Lupron, a drug patented half a century ago, treats advanced prostate cancer. It costs a few hundred dollars in the U.K. — so why are U.S. hospitals charging so much more to administer it?

October 26, 2022
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  • Arthur Allen
Grady Memorial Hospital

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  • Health Care

Grady Health System will get $130 million in pandemic relief to help prepare for AMC closure

Grady Health System is expected to take on hundreds of extra patients per day following the closure of Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center on Nov. 1. 

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Orlando Montoya
Atlanta Medical Center has been a community fixture in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood for decades. Wellstar Health System, the nonprofit that owns the facility, plans to shutter it in November. It's the latest change in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood and another severe blow to the Atlanta - area health care landscape.

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Impending hospital closure rattles Atlanta health care landscape and political races

Georgia has seen several rural hospitals shutter in the past decade, but this year Atlanta has joined other urban centers with facility closures. The Wellstar announcement has stoked the political debate over Medicaid expansion ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

September 15, 2022
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Sam Whitehead
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