ATLANTA – Grady Health System will be opening a freestanding emergency department in south Fulton County. The move is to increase emergency medical services in metro Atlanta following the closure of Wellstar’s Atlanta Medical Center South and Atlanta Medical Center in 2023.
Grady Health System, which saw nearly 138,000 emergency visits last year at its main Atlanta campus, aims to address the service gap with this new 20,000-square-foot facility featuring 16 bays for adult and pediatric care, comprehensive diagnostic services, and an on- site helipad for critical patient transfers staffed by board-certified medical professionals.
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Ahead of World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) are jointly launching new guidance, entitled “Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practice”, to support countries to reform legislation in order to end human rights abuses and increase access to quality mental health care.
Human rights abuses and coercive practices in mental health care, supported by existing legislation and policies, are still far too common. Involuntary hospitalization and treatment, unsanitary living conditions and physical, psychological, and emotional abuse characterize many mental health services across the world.…
Federal Health Minister Mark Holland was in Corner Brook Monday to announce funding to improve health-care services across Newfoundland and Labrador over the next three years. (Colleen Connors/CBC)
Newfoundland and Labrador is the latest province to ink a bilateral agreement on health-care funding with the federal government, announcing a three-year, $256 million agreement on Monday.
The provincial government says it plans to use the money across the health-care systems to expand access to family health services by creating more family care teams, addressing surgical backlogs, recruiting more staff and expanding virtual care among other items.
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