Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville has applied to become a Level 1 Trauma Center. If its application is accepted, it would create another much-needed specialized research hospital in Georgia.
The state currently has four Level 1 trauma centers around the state: Augusta University Medical Center, Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Macon’s Atrium Health Navicent, and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
Until Wellstar Health System shut it down in November, another one was at Atlanta Medical Center in the city’s Old Fourth Ward.
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