In April, Wellstar announced Atlanta Medical Center South would be converted into an urgent care and rehabilitation clinic, leaving residents across much of metro Atlanta’s southside without an emergency room.
Since then, that East Point-based clinic is now expected to fully close while another AMC location in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood shuttered at the start of the month.
But one East Point city councilmember says he has a plan that could bring a hospital back to south Fulton County by creating a hospital authority among southside municipalities.
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