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Georgia Coronavirus: Hospital News

Rob Bozicevich, an EMS Academy manager, demonstrates a high-flow nasal cannula device on a patient simulator as paramedic student Devin Drinkwater watches, at the Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service in Marietta. The pandemic has changed the way emergency crews work. Now, EMS workers are adapting to the need to treat more patients with respiratory distress, etc. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Battered by the pandemic, EMS struggles to adapt
Medical Director Hospitalist at Floyd Medical Center, Dr. Daniel Valancius, right, and Radiologist Matthew McClain, MD, left, speak with Josetta Cooke at Floyd Medical Center in Rome earlier this week. In March 2020, Cooke became one of the first diagnosed COVID-19 patients at Floyd Medical Center. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
Georgia News
At the start, waves of doubt
Kelly LaCerra prepares to enter a patient's room in the COVID-19 unit of the ICU at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. LaCerra, a charge nurse in the COVID-19 ICU unit, and two physicians who pronounced dozens of deaths say they are just now beginning to process what they saw. (Contributed)
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There for every death
Medical staff treat a patient in a trauma room in the Emergency and Trauma Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in Gainesville in January. NGMC, which has four hospital campuses, has received about $77 million in federal relief funds, federal data show. NGMC told the AJC it had reduced executive compensation, as well as delayed or reduced capital expansion projects, among other cost-cutting measures, during the pandemic. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Georgia hospitals, doctors vie for last round of federal relief money
Michael Purvis suffered serious complications due to COVID-19 not long after he was hired as CEO of Candler County Hospital. In late November, he kicked off his second year at the helm of the 25-bed critical access facility. (HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)
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A community in peril as its hospital CEO falls victim to COVID-19
Cobb County resident Willia George, 84, receives a single dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine while at a Cobb and Douglass County Public Health Department COVID-19 vaccine drive thru at Jim Miller Park in Marietta. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
Local News
A look at major COVID-19 developments over the past week
Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga., was one of the earliest hit with a surge of COVID-19 cases and had to build extra space to treat patients.
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Rome hospital execs allowed employees’ families to jump vaccine line
Gov. Brian Kemp makes remarks after touring a Cobb and Douglass County Public Health Department COVID-19 vaccine drive thru site at Jim Miller Park in Marietta Wednesday. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
Local News
More contagious COVID-19 strain ‘probably widespread’ in Georgia
Dr. Eliel Arrey, a surgeon, is shown arriving for work at Grady Memorial Hospital on Tuesday. Grady, the site where both the state's top health official and many of Atlanta's poor have been vaccinated against COVID-19, recently checked on its weekly allocation of coronavirus vaccination doses to find it would get none at all. A round of shock and pleading shook loose 220 doses from the state's overall allocation. (PHOTO by John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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Chaotic vaccine deliveries stymie pandemic response
Registered nurse Aleve Reed administers a COVID-19 vaccine during an event Jan. 16, 2021, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Fulton County School employees and their spouses who are 65 and older. (Photo: Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Coronavirus
A third of Georgia adults reluctant to take vaccine, AJC poll finds
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