Georgia U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is urging Wellstar Health System not to stand in the way of Atlanta Medical Center employees taking jobs with other companies. The senator sent a letter to its CEO ahead of Wellstar’s shutdown of the hospital’s Emergency Department Friday.
In the letter to Wellstar Health System President and CEO Candice Saunders, Warnock expressed concern that Wellstar may enforce employment noncompete provisions that could prevent AMC physicians from working for other area hospitals.
Such physician provisions are common in health care, barring doctors from working for a competing practice in proximity to their previous employer for a specific amount of time.
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