50% of suicide victims interact with health care system in the month before their...
The Pew Charitable Trusts recently launched a project aimed at reducing suicide rates by making risk assessment a part of routine hospital visits.
Evidence-based screening tools...
More penalized Georgia hospitals . . . and more controversy
Medicare has penalized 21 Georgia hospitals for having the highest rates of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.
That’s up slightly from the 18 hospitals...
NGHS set to break ground on new medical office for ambulatory surgery center in...
Northeast Georgia Health System is set to break ground next month on a new multispecialty medical office building that will house an ambulatory surgery...
A gene found in Georgia sewer water makes bacteria resistant to the ‘last resort’...
Recently, a gene that makes bacteria resistant to one of the world’s strongest antibiotics was found in an unnamed urban sewer system in Georgia,...
Georgia flu activity ‘very high,’ state health officials say
COVID is surging and so is the flu. The Georgia Department of Public Health says Georgia flu activity is "very high." On a scale...
Covid hospitalizations soar in Atlanta area; Northside wins a round in court vs. Anthem
Major happenings in health care didn’t cease over the holidays.
The news, in fact, exploded – in both familiar and surprising directions, including an unusual...
Top 10 Georgia health care stories of 2021
Close to 20,000 new Covid cases (including positives from antigen tests) were reported in Georgia on the last Wednesday of 2021, as new daily...
Potential remedies to stubborn problems in rural health care
Part 5 of a Special Report
The concept isn’t exactly new.
Free-standing ERs — affiliated with hospitals but not physically connected to them — have cropped...
What’s next for Georgia as Medicaid waiver requirements rejected?
The timing of the waiver decision, right before Christmas, drew a quick, angry response from state Republican leaders.
Gov. Brian Kemp’s spokeswoman noted that the...
Rural Health Pt. 1: A rural Georgia community reels after hospital closes
Lacandie Gipson struggled to breathe.
The 33-year-old woman with multiple health conditions was in respiratory distress and awaiting an ambulance. About 20 minutes after the...
Rural Health Pt. 2: How rural health care ‘limps along’ in certain communities
Part 2 of a Special Report
The medical predicament that many rural communities want to avoid lies 35 miles south of Columbus, Georgia.
Eight years ago,...
Rural Health Pt. 3: The ripple effect when rural hospitals drop birthing services
Part 3 of a Special Report
Madelaine Austin is having her first baby and had planned to give birth at Stephens County Hospital in northeast...