A closed rural hospital has reopened with a new name and a plan for a bigger development.
The former Chestatee Regional Hospital in Dahlonega, the seat of Lumpkin County, is now Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin. It’s a scaled-down facility that offers an emergency department, inpatient care and other services. It’s part of the Northeast Georgia Health System, based in Gainesville.
Looking forward, the system is developing plans to replace the reopened facility with a new hospital 5 miles outside Dahlonega. The site of this planned hospital is at the end point of Georgia 400, a highway that connects Atlanta and some of its suburbs to Georgia’s Appalachian region.
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