Georgia Health News is now part of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau. Read the latest health care policy news out of Georgia: After 11 years, Georgia Health News joined KFF Health News. Together we are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A westside Atlanta neighborhood contaminated with lead has been added to the EPA’s Superfund priority list, freeing up more federal funding for long-term cleanup. The English Avenue area is one of 12 ...

Looking at the most rural counties — those with fewer than 50,000 residents and at least 50 miles from a major city — the death rates were 66% higher than in their states as a whole. Of the eight ...

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 ...

If you have no insurance, or if your insurance isn’t adequate to cover your expenses, some low-cost options can help you. Georgia’s Free Clinic Network provides care at no cost or on a sliding fee ...

Two pharmacy employees at Emory University Hospital Midtown illegally diverted more than 1 million doses of controlled drugs in a scheme that lasted more than four years, according to a Georgia Board ...

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. State environmental officials say a warehouse operated by a medical sterilizing company in ...