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Features, Health Care

Top Georgia Hospitals

Georgia Trend Staff,

  For the second year, Georgia Trend is publishing statewide hospital rankings, this time for 17 different categories, including cardiac care, stroke treatment and joint replacement. The rankings are compiled by HealthGrades, Inc., a leading healthcare ratings organization, which ranks…
Features, Health Care

Healing The Sick

Jerry Grillo,

  If there ever is a moment of truth this is it: Your life hangs in the balance and you’ve got to choose, right now, where you’d like to go to try and save it. Patti Chism went to her…
Business Industry, Features

Plying The Pearl Trade

Patty Rasmussen,

  If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps recession is the mother of re-invention. One thing that’s come out of the great recession and the glacially slow recovery is the need for businesses, large and small, to give their…
Business Industry, Features

Deal Of The Year

Ed Lightsey,

  For the first time, Georgia Trend highlights winners of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) Deal of the Year awards. The awards, established in 2007, recognize achievement in locating or expanding new business, says the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority’s…
Education, Features

One Size Does Not Fit All

Jerry Grillo,

  Dr. Carol Rountree remembers it well, the warning handed down by the Rich-mond County School System superintendent almost 10 years ago, in which he stressed the potentially disastrous pitfalls of placing too much weight on a standardized test. The…
Business Industry, Features

The Real Thing

Neely Young, Susan Percy,

  Atlanta’s venerable Coca-Cola Company is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. From a flavorful pick-me-up concocted by a local pharmacist, Coca-Cola has become the world’s best-known consumer product. Muhtar Kent became CEO in 2008 and added the Chairman of…