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Coliseum Medical Centers says they are COVID-19-free for the first time in more than a year Author: Molly Jett (13WMAZ) Updated: 7:06 PM EDT July 6, 2021
MACON, Ga. Over the last year, we ve started many of our newscasts with the news that COVID-19 cases have spiked at Central Georgia hospitals, but Tuesday, Coliseum Medical Centers says they are COVID-19-free for the first time in more than a year.
In July 2020, Coliseum Medical Centers had 52 positive COVID-19 patients.
That s according to the federal HealthData.gov website.
Today, they have zero.
Coliseum Medical Center Intensive Care Unit Nurse Julia Rodgers married Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Clinical Coordinator John Rodgers at the start of the pandemic.
Some hospitals are offering signing bonuses for nurses. Piedmont Healthcare is offering up to $30,000 and Coliseum Health Systems offers between $3,000 and $10,000
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Piedmont Healthcare is adding four HCA hospitals to its network in a deal valued at close to $1 billion.
The purchases from HCA, announced Monday, would make Atlanta-based Piedmont the leading system in Georgia in number of hospitals, at 15. The Emory and Wellstar systems are next, at 11.
The deal had been rumored for several days.
If regulators approve the acquisitions, as expected, the nonprofit Piedmont system will acquire Eastside Medical Center in Snellville; Coliseum Medical Centers and Coliseum Northside, both in Macon; and Cartersville Medical Center in Cartersville.
The targeted closing date is July 31. HCA, a chain based in Tennessee, valued the acquisition price at $950 million.