Georgia slipped to No. 46 among the states in a new ranking of health system performance, down from 42nd the previous year. The new 2020 Commonwealth Fund report on states’ health system performance, ...

By Drew Kann, Shelia Poole and Nick Thieme This article is reprinted courtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lanetra Tucker used to live in an apartment just a block away from Crawford W. Long ...

Shannon Whitten has worked as a rural nurse practitioner for 20 years in Sandersville, in eastern Georgia. She’s an advanced practice registered nurse, also known as an APRN. Some of her colleagues at ...

Life expectancy at an English Avenue neighborhood address, in a low-income section of Atlanta, is 63.6 years. But less than 10 miles away, an address in the affluent Margaret Mitchell area of Atlanta, ...

Lacandie Gipson struggled to breathe. The 33-year-old woman with multiple health conditions was in respiratory distress and awaiting an ambulance. About 20 minutes after the emergency call, it arrived ...

So Beckman and his fellow therapeutic musicians returned to the hospital in May 2020, this time with a new audience: workers rather than patients. The musicians, who are specially trained to provide ...

The money, which came from an avalanche of risky debt, was used to pay shareholders and executives at the firms. But the moves left the company’s finances in a tenuous position at a critical juncture.

Eight of Piedmont Healthcare’s 11 hospitals earned an “A’’ grade in the latest patient safety evaluation by the Leapfrog Group, released Thursday. Those top-rated Piedmont hospitals represent ...

Frank Berry is retiring after six years of heading the state’s main health care agency. He will be replaced by Gov. Brian Kemp’s deputy chief of staff for operations, Caylee Noggle, who will take over ...

A Charlotte-based health care system has finalized a deal to acquire a nonprofit hospital organization based in Rome. Floyd Medical Center, a hospital in Cedartown and one in Alabama will now become ...

Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor and CEO of Georgia Health News. The state’s Environmental Protection Division launched an immediate investigation Tuesday of a ...

The current covid onslaught may be the worst of the four virus surges in one crucial way: The effect on hospital employee morale. Leaders of Georgia hospital systems say the latest covid-19 wave has ...