Ensuring Access with a Hospital's Conversion to a Freestanding Emergency Department
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Description
Outlines Ellijay, Georgia-based North Georgia Medical Center's transition from a traditional community hospital to a freestanding emergency department (ED). Shares administrative, legal, and logistical challenges that, once overcome, resulted in Piedmont Mountainside Hospital Emergency Services - a successful, community-focused, freestanding ED.
Date
11/2017
Organization
American Hospital Association Rural Health Services
Tagged as
Access
· Closures of healthcare facilities and services
· Emergency department and urgent care services
· Hospitals
· Service delivery models
· Georgia