Struggling community hospitals in Georgia are reinventing themselves as freestanding ERs
An ambulance races down an empty street in Folkston, Ga., population about 5,000. It bypasses Charlton Memorial Hospital, makes a sharp right turn and speeds to an emergency room 40 miles away. Why? Because Charlton Memorial Hospital has been closed since last August. Four of Georgia’s 65 rural hospitals have shut down over the past […]