Acting just before a looming deadline, Grady Memorial Hospital Corp. has launched a surprise bid to acquire financially ailing Southern Regional Medical Center, Clayton County’s sole hospital. The Grady proposal, valued at more than $20 million, sets up a bidding war between Grady and Prime Healthcare Foundation for the 331-bed Riverdale hospital and related assets….
Month: September 2015
Carter to join Nepal project
Jimmy Carter, who is being treated for cancer, plans to travel to Nepal this November to participate in a Habitat for Humanity project. Read the full article: WABE
Athens: Police lawsuit
A former police officer has filed a lawsuit claiming he lost his job despite a new law that prohibits police from filing criminal charges when someone asks for medical help for an alcohol or drug overdose. Read the full article: Athens Banner-Herald
Grant for research lab
The NIH has awarded $8.5 million to Emory in collaboration with Georgia Tech to establish a National Exposure Assessment Laboratory. Read the full article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Public health conference
The 4th annual State of Public Health Conference, hosted by the University of Georgia College of Public Health, will be Oct. 6 in Athens. Read the full article: Albany Herald
Rome: New Harbin CEO
Kenna Stock will take over as CEO of Harbin Clinic and become the first woman, and the first non-physician, to fill that role. Read the full article: Rome News-Tribune
Suwanee medical school starting PA program
The Georgia campus of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has been approved to launch a physician assistant program. The two-year master’s degree program will begin next June, with 20 students in the first class. The Georgia campus of PCOM is in Suwanee, a northeastern suburb of Atlanta. Physician assistants practice medicine with supervision by licensed…
Link between alcoholism and depression
Alcoholism is not a form of depression, but both are quite common, and there is plenty of overlap between the two.
Coke ends sponsorship deal
Coca-Cola will not renew its financial sponsorship of a group after the company was accused of trying to minimize the role sugary drinks play in obesity. Read the full article: Atlanta Business Chronicle
Medical marijuana expansion?
A new organization wants Georgia lawmakers to allow marijuana to be grown and harvested under close monitoring to treat certain diseases. Read the full article: Associated Press