Georgia’s largest safety-net hospital with one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country will operate at a reduced capacity for much of the year.
A water pipe break in early December flooded three floors at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Hospital officials originally expected repair work to take just a few months. Now they say it won’t be done until October.
“The amount of water that got into those nursing units requires that all the drywall be removed,” said John Haupert, president and CEO of Grady Health System. “So, those units are all going down to the studs and being completely rebuilt.”
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