Lori Rakes has been named chief executive officer at Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center. Rakes is entering her 35th year of acute healthcare experience.
FOX 5 was in the operating room at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital when a Fayette County high school athletic director received a life changing kidney transplant.
As the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, hospitals are being bombarded with children and adults suffering from respiratory illnesses such as RSV and the flu in addition to COVID patients.
Encompass Health Corp. (Birmingham, Ala.), an owner and operator of rehabilitation hospitals, and nonprofit community health system Piedmont (Atlanta) are partnering to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Johnston, R.I.