Georgia faces one of the highest uninsured rates in the nation – more than 1.2 million residents, including 171,000 children, lack access to health coverage. In neighborhoods throughout metro Atlanta, everyone from children to senior citizens face significant barriers to…
At 44, life changed in an instant for Tiffany Batiste, a high-achieving mother of two. A senior manager at an Atlanta sales organization and an Ironman athlete in training, she was used to pushing limits. But one afternoon, something felt…
In June, Gov. Kemp announced grants totaling $6 million to 13 rural hospitals through the Dual Track Rural Hospital Support program. “These funds will provide support to initiatives that address critical needs for both Georgia’s rural hospitals and citizens,” Joel…
In our August 2023 issue, Georgia Trend covers the new challenges that nurses face. This list of universities and colleges represents the state-wide education opportunities that Georgia offers new nurses. From the feature: A number of partnerships between health systems…
If you have any leftover Valentine’s Day chocolate, first, congratulations (and how did you manage that?). If it’s dark chocolate, you can feel ever so slightly less guilty about indulging. There is some evidence that eating dark chocolate – “in…
Georgia ranks 36th among states in United Health Foundation’s 2022 America's Health Rankings. The report analyzes overall health represented by 51 measures across five categories, including social and economic factors, physical environment, behaviors, clinical care and health outcomes. UHF, a private…
When it was announced in October that the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance (CTSA), a group of Georgia universities, had received a $58.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue to improve the health of the…
College football fans are familiar with the sideline medical tent, a portable, on-field triage spot where players can get treatment for minor injuries and be evaluated for more serious ones. It’s just one example of how sports medicine continues to…
As access to healthcare across the state continues to be uncertain for many in rural and underserved communities, schools are becoming places that can serve as healthcare safety nets for some of the most vulnerable Georgians – children. There are…
The nursing shortage is a challenge for hospitals across Georgia and throughout the nation. According to Becker’s Hospital Review, Georgia ranks 45th in the nation for the number of active nurses per capita. That’s a shortfall of about 27,000 nurses.…
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