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Impending Hospital Closure Rattles Atlanta Health Care Landscape and Political Races - KFF Health News
The nonprofit owners of Atlanta Medical Center, a 460-bed Level 1 trauma center in the heart of the city, plan to close the hospital in November. As many community members worry about the hole the closure will leave in the city’s safety net, the news has thrust health care into the political...

Anyone from Atlanta care to comment on this disaster? This hospital was one of the two Level 1 trauma centers in the city and now the remaining center (Grady) will see an estimated increase of 2500 emergency room visits a month. They're setting up a "24 bed field hospital" and converting offices to patient rooms to help address the load.
The article hedges that this closure may not entirely be due to the lack of medicaid expansion in the state, but it definitely exacerbated the problem given their patient demographics.
The poor of Georgia deserve better.