Southern Regional Medical Center’s new owner has named Charlotte W. Dupré as permanent CEO of the Clayton County hospital. Dupré has been interim CEO since December. She led the hospital through the transition when it was acquired by California-based Prime Healthcare. “I am greatly honored by the trust placed in me by Prime Healthcare,” Dupré said…
About one-fourth of Georgia hospitals received an “A” grade on patient safety in newly published ratings. That percentage, determined by the Leapfrog Group, is down from this past autumn, when one-third of Georgia hospitals got an “A” in the organization’s ratings. The ratings from Leapfrog, a patient safety organization founded by employers, are issued semi-annually,…
The new partnership between the Atlanta Hawks and Emory Healthcare goes far beyond the typical medical sponsorship of a sports team, Emory officials say. The Brookhaven training and sports medicine center, announced this week, will be the first pairing of a professional team and an academic medical center’s entire sports medicine program, Dr. Jonathan Lewin,…
The two deals are very different in size and other details, but the Georgia hospital combinations announced last week reflect the fast pace of such partnerships between sometimes distant health systems. WellStar Health System announced Friday that it had just added five Tenet Healthcare hospitals in the Atlanta region, cementing WellStar’s place as the biggest…
After some maneuverings at the eleventh hour of its 2016 session, the General Assembly passed a bill that would allow an individual or corporation to get a state tax credit for donating money to a rural health care organization. The proposal had appeared to be blocked recently when a Senate health committee rejected the idea. But…
Hospitals across the state are seeing an uptick in flu cases, and public health officials say the illness has now become widespread in Georgia. Yet compared with past flu seasons, this one appears relatively mild. And it’s spiking much later than those of previous years. Though flu season can last into April or even May,…
Piedmont Healthcare has received a gift of $75 million from the Marcus Foundation to support the growth of Piedmont Heart Institute and help develop a major project at the system’s campus in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. The foundation gift is the second largest ever made to a community hospital in the United States, Piedmont…
A Senate health committee Monday unexpectedly rejected a bill that would allow an individual or corporation to get a state tax credit for donating money to a rural health care organization. The sponsor, Rep. Geoff Duncan, a Cumming Republican, told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee before its vote that rural health care in…
Emory University Hospital’s special infectious disease unit is awaiting a patient suspected of having Lassa fever, an acute viral disease indigenous to West Africa. The patient’s diagnosis has not yet been confirmed. Emory said Friday that it will work with the CDC and Georgia Public Health officials to diagnose the patient, a physician assistant who…
Open enrollment can bring a big decision for consumers: Which health coverage plan do I choose? And much of that decision is based on whether the consumer’s favorite doctor or hospital is part of a plan’s network. But if the available listings of health plan providers are not accurate, consumers could end up making bad…