Carrie Teegardin

Carrie Teegardin

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Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

Carrie Teegardin staff image

Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

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Altmed - Part 3

Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret

An AJC investigation found some Georgia alternative medicine clinics marketing unproven treatments and costly supplements to desperate patients.

Alt Med - Part 4

Atlanta clinic promoting unconventional medicine has controversial history

Almost every other day, another video appears on social media showing a man with white hair and a white beard sitting behind a microphone and extolling the virtues of alternat...

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Nurses concerned about Georgia medical board’s announcement on IV clinics

A move by the Georgia Medical Board to protect patients seeking care at the growing number of IV therapy clinics across the state leads to a backlash from nurses.

AltMed - Risky Medicine

Welcome to Georgia, where questionable therapies flourish with little oversight

Hundreds of Georgia wellness clinics promote unproven treatments with little oversight from one of the nation’s weakest medical boards, an AJC investigation found.

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More than $600M to overhaul a prison system in crisis. But it’s just the start

State budget includes money to fix state prison system suffering from violence, massive understaffing and security lapses.

Health care provider bankruptcy may stick rural Georgia with state prisoners’ medical bills

Health care provider bankruptcy may stick rural Georgia with state prisoners’ medical bills

Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.

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Georgia prison homicides soar as lawmakers focus on fixes

January is off to a bloody start in Georgia prisons after setting a new record for homicides last year.

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Two found dead after gang violence at Hancock State Prison

Two prisoners are dead in the latest outburst of violence at a Georgia state prison.

Consultants detail depth of Georgia prison crisis; no easy fixes ahead

Recommendations to upgrade facilities and to address staffing shortages will need more spending than Gov. Kemp proposes.