Back in 2016, Gilmer County, Georgia, had a problem.
The hospital was closing in the Appalachian foothill community 80 miles north of Atlanta. It wasn’t admitting enough patients and filling enough beds.
Charlie Paris, the chair of the Gilmer County Commission, says people took the closure hard.
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