Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency Friday over flood damage at Grady, which will speed the transfer of a 30-bed mobile unit to the Atlanta hospital.
The emergency declaration allows the state to use Georgia Emergency Management Agency funding to bring the mobile unit, owned by the state of North Carolina, to the Grady campus.
Kemp’s press secretary Cody Hall told GHN that Georgia officials hope the hospital unit can arrive within days. Grady already employs a mobile ER to treat patients, as it has in previous years.
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