Georgia children's hospitals get pediatrics workforce grant, over $700K in total funding

KINGS BAY, Ga. (July 12, 2021) - Andrea Thaxton, a pediatrician at Naval Branch Health Clinic Kings Bay, examines a two-year-old. (U.S. Navy photo by Deidre Smith, Naval Hospital Jacksonville/Released).
Under the bipartisan federal Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education program this year, two metro-area facilities are slated to receive grant funds –– Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory University and Scottish Rite Children’s Medical Center. (U.S. Navy photo by Deidre Smith, Naval Hospital Jacksonville)

More pediatricians and pediatric specialists could soon complete their training in Georgia as part of a federal grant aimed at closing the state’s pediatric-provider gap.

Under the bipartisan federal Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education program this year, two metro-area facilities are slated to receive grant funds.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Egleston Hospital, located at the Emory University School of Medicine campus, will receive $609,453. And Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Scottish Rite Hospital will receive $109,511.