Author: Elspeth Male

Meals on Wheels: Volunteers deliver food as they fret about funding

Elspeth Male

This is the seventh in a series of articles reported in Northwest Georgia, an area rich in stories about unmet health needs and about people and programs making a difference. Georgia Health News and the health and medical journalism graduate program at UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication collaborated to produce this series, made possible…

Ideas and a sense of urgency permeate rural health care symposium

Elspeth Male

For many rural hospitals in Georgia, the threat of closure is constant. The state has one of the highest closure rates for hospitals in the nation, and those numbers do not show any sign of slowing. Policymakers, medical professionals and those interested in rural health care converged at a symposium at the University of Georgia…