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Attorneys and representatives for correctional health care provider, Wellpath, and for the state attended a hearing over the lawsuit at the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. The new health care provider for Georgia prisons will start July 1.

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 28, 2024
Piedmont Macon hospital

Macon hospitals want to stop paying property taxes. County board says no.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 9, 2023
Navicent Health, The Medical Center of Central Georgia merged with North Carolina-based Atrium Health in 2019. It is now called Atrium Health Navicent.

Jury awards former Navicent executive, surgeon almost $5 million in civil suit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 14, 2023
Scott Seigel, the Market Preseident at Truist, speaks to press outside of the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital in Macon, Ga. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. “We couldn’t be more excited to see all the smiles on the faces this morning that the children had when they came up to have their picture taken,” he said of the chance for patients to take photographs with the Braves World Series Commissioner's Trophy. (Photo by Evey Wilson Wetherbee)

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commits millions to grow rural pediatric care

By Sofi Gratas, GPB News
March 2, 2023
Dale Folwell talks to reporters about hospital prices in June 2022. Behind him sits interim State Health Plan director Sam Watts.

How much should nonprofit hospital CEOs make? NC Treasurer’s report fuels debate.

Michelle Crouch and Rose Hoban, Charlotte Ledger and North Carolina Health News
February 20, 2023
The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center was established in 2018 by Georgia lawmakers to address “the complex health care challenges and wellness disparities facing rural communities,” according to the Center’s website. Maternal morality is one area of their work across the state, with initiatives underway to make holistic maternal healthcare more accessible to Georgia’s rural communities.

Georgia’s maternal mortality rates are growing– how are local organizations responding?

McKenna Kaufman, Center for Collaborative Journalism
December 12, 2022
An ambulance is pictured outside the Medical Center, Navicent Health, (then The Medical Center of Central Georgia) in this 2009 file photo. Federal law requires all Medicare-participating hospitals with emergency departments to medically screen and stabilize any patient in need of emergency care.

Hospital authority plans to ask Macon-Bibb for a cut of its tax revenue

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
November 17, 2022
Land acquisition expert John Golitz talks to Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning commissioners in April about plans for a 780-acre solar plant in west Bibb County.

P&Z rejects new solar field, approves new homes and trade school

South Bibb neighbors fought green energy operation on 780 nearby acres off Hartley Bridge Road for the next 35 years
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
May 24, 2022
A new VA medical center is proposed for Gwinnett County to augment treatment options for metro Atlanta enrollees living in the northern suburbs. The Decatur medical center is a long drive for veterans on the northern end of Gwinnett. Courtesy U.S. Veterans Administration

VA eyes major changes in health care system as veterans flock to the South, Southwest

Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder
March 15, 2022
New boosters are in production to combat Covid’s recent resurgence.

Here’s how to get a booster shot in Georgia — and who should get one

Ellen Eldridge, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 26, 2021
Lane Hinson hugs her son, Lennox, in their home in Macon, Ga.

1 in 5 Georgians quit jobs to be caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s why

Ellen Eldridge, Georgia Public Broadcasting
October 5, 2021
Cost of Covid: A Deeper Community Look

Cost of Covid: A Deeper Community Look

June 17, 2021
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