FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — After saying plans to open a brand new emergency division in southern Fulton County in April, Grady Well being confirmed Channel 2 Motion Information that the state had formally authorized the plan.
In response to a Grady spokesperson, the free-standing emergency division can be in-built Union Metropolis, simply south of Interstate 20, and can be open 24/7.
“We’re happy that our certificates of want has been authorized to construct a freestanding emergency division in southern Fulton County. “This free-standing emergency division, in-built partnership with Fulton County, can be positioned in Union Metropolis and can be open 24 hours a day, seven days per week,” Grady stated in a press release shared with Channel 2 Motion Information.
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The hospital system stated the brand new emergency division ought to open in fall 2026 and can be staffed by “docs, nurses and different licensed clinicians, permitting us to serve a neighborhood that has skilled elevated demand for entry to well being care.” .
Channel 2's Candace McCowan reported in April that the brand new emergency division was supposed, not less than partially, to fill a void left open after the closure of Wellstar Atlanta Medical Middle in November 2022.
“We knew and knew there was a well being care desert in southern Fulton County,” Fulton County President Robb Pitts stated on the time.
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In earlier feedback, Grady President and CEO John Haupert stated the division “can have 16 emergency therapy bays, they are going to be grownup and pediatric.”
The situation is a 40-acre website alongside South Fulton Parkway and Campbellton Fairburn Highway, adjoining to the Fulton County Operations Middle and Election Middle.
“It may save lives. “If somebody has chest ache, their liked one takes them there and they are often evaluated extra rapidly than if somebody needed to drive them to Grady or Piedmont Hospital in southern Fulton County,” Haupert stated.
Whereas the division will present emergency care, Grady officers stated it won’t be a trauma heart and sufferers with traumatic accidents will nonetheless need to go to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
“There’s a great demand for pediatric emergency companies inside that service space. Proper now, if in case you have a sick youngster and you could go to an emergency room, you must go to Hughes Spalding or go to CHOA,” Haupert stated. “We may even have psychological well being stabilization there.”
The general venture is predicted to price $38 million, and Pitts stated Channel 2 Motion Information in April he anticipated Grady to request $19 million from the county to make the brand new emergency division a actuality.
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