“Our partnership with Piedmont will enable us to transform healthcare for the Augusta region,” Hugh Hamilton, chairman of the Richmond County Hospital Authority, said in a release from Augusta-based University Health Care System. Kevin Brown, CEO of Piedmont Healthcare, said purchasing the HCA hospitals “means providing high-quality care that is […]
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A Charlotte-based health care system has finalized a deal to acquire a nonprofit hospital organization based in Rome. Floyd Medical Center, a hospital in Cedartown and one in Alabama will now become part of Atrium Health under the long-delayed agreement, announced Wednesday. It’s the second big foray into Georgia for […]
Georgia public health officials and the CDC said they do not track vaccination rates for frontline workers at hospitals and nursing homes. ExploreHow hospitals are dealing with the coronavirus pandemic Vaccine resistance among health care workers is no surprise, said Dr. Harry Greenspun, chief medical officer for Guidehouse, a management […]