May 13, 2021 · The flurry of Georgia hospital deals continued Thursday with AdventHealth announcing that it’s purchasing an HCA hospital in Rome. The acquisition of Redmond Regional Medical Center had been rumored for weeks. It’s the fifth hospital that Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare plans to sell in Georgia. The other four — two in Macon and two in different...

Feb 12, 2025 · Georgia Health News is now part of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau. Read the latest health care policy news out of Georgia: After 11 years, Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News. Together we are telling the important health care stories about Georgia from across the state. Learn more from Andy Miller. If you are...

May 3, 2021 · Piedmont Healthcare is adding four HCA hospitals to its network in a deal valued at close to $1 billion. The purchases from HCA, announced Monday, would make Atlanta-based Piedmont the leading system in Georgia in number of hospitals, at 15. The Emory and Wellstar systems are next, at 11. The deal had been rumored for...

Government health insurance programs Medicaid and PeachCare cover 1.4 million Georgians. But thousands more who qualify for this insurance haven’t signed up for it, including a large number of uninsured children. Medicaid, jointly financed by the federal and state governments, covers the poor and the disabled. It is based on income and family size. Most...

Georgia Health News was launched in 2010 as a nonprofit news service dedicated to covering health care across the state. We built our readership and media partnerships over the years with insightful, compelling articles that captured the interest of consumers, lawmakers, and industry officials across the state. In 2021, the GHN board decided to join...

May 24, 2016 · Mike King, a veteran health policy journalist who was a reporter, editor and editorial board member at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is the author of “A Spirit of Charity: Restoring the Bond between America and Its Public Hospitals.” The book, available for purchase May 31, traces the history of the nation’s urban public hospitals through the prism of Atlanta’s...

Feb 20, 2018 · Alaska, for example, stopped offering free rabies treatment in 2014 because it became too expensive. Wyoming also used to cover the cost of rabies treatment, but funding for that program ran out in 2010, says Karl Musgrave, DVM, the state public health veterinarian.

If you have no insurance, or if your insurance isn’t adequate to cover your expenses, some low-cost options can help you. Georgia’s Free Clinic Network provides care at no cost or on a sliding fee scale, based on income and family size. A recent state law giving malpractice immunity to volunteer physicians has helped grow this clinic network in Georgia.

May 3, 2021 · Three nursing homes that were hit hard by COVID-19 have been sold to an Atlanta-based company. Empire Care Centers, a private firm, recently purchased Westbury nursing homes in Jackson, McDonough and Conyers. Each facility lost a significant number of residents to COVID. State data show that 26 residents died from the virus at Westbury Conyers....

May 23, 2019 · The Georgia Poison Center gets a lot of urgent phone calls every day. Two of these calls, on average, involve a category of products that many people might not consider dangerous. The products are known as “essential oils’’ – highly concentrated extracts from plants – and the victims of such poisoning are usually children. Dr....