Atlanta-area hospitals join blood transfusion network
We recognize that it’s not always possible to travel distances to receive ongoing care, therefore U.S. News created the Best Regional Hospitals which ranks hospitals in both states and major metro areas and recognizes hospitals in every region of the country. Within a state or metro area, th...
Named General Hospitals differed from Station Hospitals, since they were empowered to receive patients from a much wider area and to provide more complex medical or surgical care, particularly in those specialized fields demanding special training and equipment, such as thoracic, neurological, plastic,...
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee).Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center is the flagship hospital of Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, an integrated healthcare system that merged with Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health in 2018 to create the 10th-largest nonprofit health system in...
the filing of a complaint to the IRS about Wellstar Health System’s nonprofit status after it closed two Atlanta-area hospitals in 2022. The complaint noted the system’s proposed merger with Augusta University Health, under which Wellstar would open a new hospital in an affluent suburban ...
that on Sunday, Jan. 1 at 8:55 a.m., a 9-1-1 call was received involving a snowcat and a pedestrian, who had been ran over by the snowcat in the area of Mount Rose Highway. According to Samudio, the previous evening had seen approximately three feet of snow in the area. ...
The Georgia Coordinating Center (GCC) is a communications center for use ONLY by ambulance crews who are transporting patients to emergency departments that are located in the 13-county metro Atlanta area. The public should NOT call the GCC with questions or concerns. To help keep hospital emerg...
Richardson S, Hirsch JS, Narasimhan M, et al; and the Northwell COVID-19 Research Consortium. Presenting characteristics, comorbidities, and outcomes among 5700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area. JAMA. 2020;323(20):2052-2059. doi:10.1001/jama.2020...
began clamoring for an official Shriners' philanthropy rather than simply reacting to catastrophes. Heading the organization at the time was Freeland Kendrick, who was inspired to create Shriners Hospitals after paying a visit to the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Atlanta and becoming...
People work in a lab that President Donald Trump watched during his meeting about the coronavirus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Friday, March 6, 2020 in Atlanta.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Kaiser argues that such "presumptive cases" are not adequately defined, and has questione...