Georgia lawmakers on Thursday agreed on a plan to loosen some parts of the state’s health care permitting law.
The House and Senate gave final passage to House Bill 1339, sending it to Gov. Brian Kemp for his approval or veto.
The measure would allow the historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine to open a hospital in central Atlanta that could provide services once offered by the now-shuttered Atlanta Medical Center. It would also allow a hospital to open without a permit in any rural county where a prior hospital has been closed for more than 12 months. That could allow a hospital in the southwest Georgia town of Cuthbert that closed in 2020 to reopen.
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