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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
Atrium Health Navicent

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  • Health Care

Health system that operates Atrium Health Navicent in Macon announces giant merger

North Carolina-based Atrium Health, which owns and operates Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, announced Wednesday its merger with the Midwest’s Advocate Aurora Health.

May 12, 2022
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  • Becky Purser
Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center

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  • News

Georgia’s rural hospitals are holding on. But communities where they’ve closed face a brutal reality

Georgia's rural hospitals were struggling long before COVID-19 crushed them with a wave of patients. As surges subside, hospitals and communities wonder where they go from here.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Charles Johnson wears a button with a picture of his wife, Kira, during a press conference announcing a lawsuit outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Wednesday in Los Angeles. Kira Johnson died at the hospital in 2016 from complications after giving birth by cesarean section.

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  • Health

Lawsuit says a Black patient bled to death because of a hospital's culture of racism

The husband of a Black woman who died hours after childbirth in 2016 has sued Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, saying she bled to death because of a culture of racism at the renowned hospital.

May 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Atlanta Medical Center South

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  • Health Care

Wellstar closing ER, hospital beds at struggling East Point site, still seeks partner

Wellstar announced that it’s converting the 200-bed East Point hospital into a primary care, outpatient and rehabilitation center.

April 08, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
A team of nurses, patient care technicians and a respiratory therapist prepare to return a COVID patient to their back after 24 hours of lying on their stomach. That posture makes it easier to breathe and is a critical part of treatment for COVID patients in hospitals.

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  • Health

Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and convince the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

December 26, 2021
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By:
  • Victoria Hansen
A team of nurses, patient care technicians and a respiratory therapist prepare to return a COVID patient to their back after 24 hours of lying on their stomach. That posture makes it easier to breathe and is a critical part of treatment for COVID patients in hospitals.

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  • Health

Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and convince the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

December 26, 2021
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By:
  • Victoria Hansen
Atrium Health Navicent

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  • Health Care

No answers from Atrium Health Navicent on executive pay changes, hospital authority appointments

Are Atrium Health Navicent executives about to get a pay raise? It’s hard to tell.

December 08, 2021
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By:
  • Laura Corley
A droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine last year at a hospital in Providence, R.I.

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  • Health

A N.Y. Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies As Workers Quit Over A Vaccine Mandate

Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York is pausing maternity services later this month after dozens of staff members quit because they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

September 13, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
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