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News Articles: hospital

Ribbon cutting ceremony outside the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Green Tower

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  • Health Care

This Level 1 Trauma Center in northern Georgia has a new helipad atop an 11-story tower

A new helipad on the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Green Tower's roof means faster and more efficient access to support life-saving trauma, heart and surgical care.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
On Sept. 27, when Hurricane Helene hit the Southern Appalachians, rain from higher altitudes transformed the river into a deadly flash flood, ripping a path of destruction through Erwin. The flood claimed lives, leveled homes and businesses, and forced an emergency helicopter evacuation of Unicoi County Hospital, which opened next to the river in 2018. Maddy Alewine / KFF HEALTH NEWS

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  • Health

Helicopters rescued patients in ‘apocalyptic’ flood. Other hospitals are at risk, too

The helicopter evacuation of 70 people from a Tennessee hospital during Hurricane Helene is considered a success story. The building was destroyed by floodwaters, but no one died. In hindsight, why was it built next to a river?

December 17, 2024
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By:
  • Lauren Sausser and
  • Holly K. Hacker
Eight-year-old Brithany Morales is the first patient to arrive at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital on Sunday, Sept. 29. (Courtesy of Children’s Healthcare)

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  • Children's Health

Children’s Healthcare moves into Arthur M. Blank Hospital in Brookhaven

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta closed Egleston Hospital on Sunday, Sept. 29, using 65 ambulances to move 202 patients into the brand-new Arthur M. Blank Hospital on North Druid Hills Road. 

September 30, 2024
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By:
  • Logan Ritchie
Patricia Nieshoff and her son Edward, circa 2006.

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  • National

She was a single mom, alone at hospital with her son. Then a familiar face appeared

In 2006, Patricia Nieshoff's three-year-old son had a seizure. She was a single mother, with no one to accompany her to the hospital. But an hour into her hospital stay, a familiar face appeared.

May 20, 2024
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By:
  • Laura Kwerel and
  • Brigid McCarthy
A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

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  • National

Idaho police search for escaped inmate and accomplice after ambush at Boise hospital

A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice were on the loose after the accomplice staged an overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being moved from a hospital, police said.

March 21, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Southern Regional Medical Center sign

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  • News

Medical examiner rules the decapitation of a baby during delivery was a homicide

A medical examiner has classified the death of a Georgia couple's baby that was decapitated during delivery as a homicide. Attorneys for the family announced the finding by the Clayton County Medical Examiner's Office at a news conference on Wednesday.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Law enforcement surrounds the entrance of Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, Ga. on Jan. 17, 2024. It is the only American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma verified Level I trauma center in middle Georgia

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  • News

One dead after Macon hospital standoff

Overnight in Macon, a man fired a gun inside the city’s largest hospital and barricaded himself in a restroom, holding law enforcement off for hours before taking his own life.

January 18, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The Jones building at Central State.

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  • News

Brick and mortar reminders of Georgia’s mistreatment of psychiatric patients could be erased soon

Thousands of Georgians were once confined to the world’s largest mental institution, authorized by the state in 1837 as the “Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum.”

November 13, 2023
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By:
  • Chaya Tong
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center in downtown Atlanta

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  • News

State Supreme Court takes up Gwinnett County CON dispute

The scope of the Georgia Department of Community Health’s (DCH) authority to overrule decisions on Certificate of Need (CON) applications rendered by hearing officers was at issue Tuesday before the state Supreme Court.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Atlanta Medical Center on Boulevard will close Nov. 1. (Wellstar Health System)

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  • News

A year later, future of Wellstar's Atlanta Medical Center site remains uncertain

The hospital's absence continues to affect the community on the anniversary of its closure.



 

November 01, 2023
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Anna Adams, Georgia Hospital Association

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  • News

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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By:
  • Dave Williams
Augusta University Medical Center

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  • News

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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • Samantha Liss
Conference room

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  • News

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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By:
  • Jill Nolin
 Taylor Regional Hospital

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  • News

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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By:
  • Aaleah McConnell
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