Wellstar Kennestone Hospital announced that it will open its new emergency department (ED) to patients on July 23, 2020. The 263,000-square-foot facility will be one of the top two largest and busiest EDs in the nation, serving up to 600 patients per day and 220,000 patients each year at full capacity, doubling the current trauma and emergency capacity. The new facility will ... Continue Reading
Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute Expands with Locations and New Physician
Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute has expanded across north Georgia with six new locations in Braselton, Canton, Cumming, Holly Springs and Sandy Springs. “Our focus is to provide integrated, high-quality cardiovascular care to patients across north Georgia,” said Dr. Jeffrey Marshall, chief of Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute. “Our full and expanding ... Continue Reading
Boys Are Vocal More Often Than Girls in the First Six Months of Life
Early detection of autism in infants is often indicated through various biomarkers. Now, research from the Marcus Autism Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the University of Memphis indicates boys produce significantly more vocalizations known as protophones than girls – a difference that is more pronounced in boys at high risk for autism in the first six months ... Continue Reading
CDC Foundation And Morehouse Partner To Address COVID-19 Health Inequities
The CDC Foundation and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine today announced a partnership to address the health equity implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Support for this program is provided by the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 emergency response fund. In the United States over 115,000 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 and ... Continue Reading
Dr. Edward Timmins joins Piedmont Physicians Surgical Specialists
Piedmont Newton Hospital and Piedmont Physicians Group announced that general surgeon Edward M. Timmins, DO, FACS has joined Piedmont Physicians Surgical Specialists. Dr. Timmins has more than 20 years of general surgery and trauma surgery experience. He specializes in a broad base of general surgery including thyroid, breast and abdominal procedures. His special interests ... Continue Reading
Emory Researchers Report Lower ICU and Ventilator Mortality in Critically Ill Adults with COVID-19
As COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death in the U.S., researchers at Emory University report a lower number of deaths than what most have reported for critically ill COVID-19 patients using mechanical ventilation. The research and outcomes are described online in the journal Critical Care Medicine. Emory researchers conducted a review of critically ill adult ... Continue Reading
Dr. Cindy Grines Named President of Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Cindy Grines, MD, MSCAI, FACC, a world-renowned physician credited for pioneering percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for heart attacks, has assumed the office of president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). Grines is the third female interventionalist to lead the Society. “Dr. Grines is a luminary in the field of interventional ... Continue Reading
Winship Treats First Lung Cancer Patient with T-Cell Receptor Therapy
The first lung cancer patient to be treated with a new type of immunotherapy involving the re-engineering of a patient's T cells, known as TCR T-cell therapy, took place at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) on May 7, 2020. The Winship patient is enrolled on a clinical trial evaluating the safety and tolerability of a TCR T-cell therapy product in patients ... Continue Reading
Piedmont Healthcare Enrolling Patients in Two COVID-19-related Clinical Trials
Piedmont Healthcare will participate in two new clinical trials that will investigate therapies for patients who are positive for COVID-19: one that will evaluate the efficacy of the anti-inflammatory drug Gimsilumab and another that will investigate proning, or repositioning patients to improve their oxygen levels. These studies began enrolling patients in early May. The ... Continue Reading
Critical Care Services Expanded for COVID Patients to Meet Increasing Demand
As the community spread of COVID-19 grows, Emory Healthcare, like many hospitals, is expanding critical care services throughout its hospitals to accommodate its sickest patients. That means repurposing intensive care units (ICUs) to create specialty ICUs for patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. “We have been consolidating some of our non-COVID ICUs to create ... Continue Reading
Global Health Crisis Coordination Center Launches in Atlanta to Confront COVID-19 Outbreak
CDC Foundation and Microsoft provide seed funds for unprecedented private sector coordination effort to address health and safety threats Atlanta-based Global Health Crisis Coordination Center (GHC3) has been formed to develop and lead a partner coalition of corporations and nonprofits that can assist public officials in real-time problem-solving and coordination during health ... Continue Reading
Emory Helps Lead Research on Drug to Treat COVID-19 patients
Emory University played a leading role in the government-sponsored clinical trial of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir – enrolling more patients in the study than any other site around the globe. Remdesivir was described recently by Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as the new standard of care in treating ... Continue Reading
Marcus Tower at Piedmont Atlanta to Open Early as Part of COVID-19 Response
The Marcus Tower at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital is opening on April 13, almost four months early, in an effort to serve the community and make more intensive care unit (ICU) beds available during the COVID-19 pandemic. If necessary, three ICU and acute nursing units, spread over the tower’s sixth, seventh and eighth floors, will be made available, adding a total of 132 ... Continue Reading
Northside Hospital Acquires Three Urgent Care Centers
Northside Hospital, Inc., has acquired ChoiceOne Urgent Care of Gwinnett and will partner with the Nashville-based Urgent Care Group to manage and operate three locations in the Gwinnett County, Georgia area. Over the next several months, the centers will be rebranded as HealthChoice Urgent Care. Fresenius Medical Care, which owns ChoiceOne, is leaving the urgent care ... Continue Reading
Emory New Site in NIH-Sponsored Coronavirus Vaccine Study
Emory’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU) is participating in a clinical trial testing a vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19, the first such vaccine to be tested in the United States. The goals of the Phase I study, which began on March 16 at the VTEU at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, are to test whether the ... Continue Reading
