Georgia Trend’s 2013 hospital rankings divide 138 of the state’s hospitals into five separate categories: Teaching Hospitals, Large Hospitals (more than 400 beds), Medium-sized Hospitals (151-399 beds), Small Hospitals (fewer than 150 beds) and Critical Access Hospitals (rural community hospitals).…
Whatever your needs when it comes to healthcare, Georgia is a good place to be. From Rome to Albany, from Douglasville to Savannah, Georgia claims a number of hospitals that are widely regarded as among the nation’s best in their…
In Savannah, a 60-year-old man goes to his laptop instead of the phone to schedule his annual physical. While online, he double-checks last year’s lab results and requests a refill of one of his prescriptions. In Rome, a breast cancer…
Earlier this year when athenahealth Inc. was seeking a headquarters for a major expansion of its sales, implementation and customer service operation, the Watertown, Mass.-based company bypassed many traditional tech centers for Ponce City Market in Atlanta. The $4-billion company,…
Nick Boulis has the audacity to believe, out loud, that discoveries and therapies designed to improve the human condition – world-changing breakthroughs that have been happening and are happening right now in Georgia – are just as important as…
The United States healthcare system is messed up. It’s a mangled wreck at the bottom of a smoking crater. We spend more, by far, on healthcare than any other country, more than $2.5 trillion annually, about 18 percent of…
Three decades after a motorcycle accident left him with numerous fractured bones and almost took his life, Wade Norton began to experience knee pain that made it difficult to climb stars or enjoy a game of golf. He learned…
When you think of pioneers in laparoscopy, robotic surgery or cutting-edge technologies, which Georgia health system comes to mind? When you think of Georgia’s busiest hospital emergency department or operating rooms, what do you think of? If you didn’t…
When it comes to breast cancer, the bad news is that 8,907 Georgians were diagnosed with the disease last year alone – and the chance of receiving that feared diagnosis has been increasing. In the United States, a woman’s…
In 2010, an estimated 15,435 Georgians died from cancer; 15,987 died from heart disease; and almost 3,762 died from stroke, one of the highest rates in the United States. These and many other common conditions can be treated early,…
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