For years, in rankings of health indicators by state, Georgia typically landed in the high 30s to low 40s.
But never at the bottom.
The Peach State, though, has been ranked 50th, ahead of only Oklahoma, in a comparison of states and Washington, D.C., on health care for seniors. It follows a Georgia ranking of 51st last year on overall health care, a ranking largely overshadowed at the time by news of the pandemic.
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