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GEORGIA
St. Mary's Health Care System, Inc. ®
Athens, GA
St. Mary's
is a private, non-profit health care system whose mission is to be a compassionate
healing presence in their community. The 197-bed acute care hospital is a major
referral center for Northeast Georgia, providing highly sophisticated care in key
areas such as emergency medicine, general medical/surgical services, neurosciences,
cardiac services, orthopedics, women's health, children's health and gastroenterology. St. Mary's
features a continuum of care that strives to meet the ongoing health care needs
of fast-growing Northeast Georgia, including the region's first acute inpatient
rehabilitation center, electrophysiology lab, home health care/hospice service,
industrial medicine service, retirement community, and a
freestanding outpatient diagnostic, rehab and wellness center.
St. Mary's was named the 2006 Georgia Large Hospital of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals and achieved the highest quality and safety score in the state—a perfect 100—in the Georgia Partnership for Health and Accountability's survey of care delivered in 2005. St. Mary's in 2006 opened the region's first inpatient hospice house, was re-certified by the Joint Commission as a primary stroke center, introduced 64-slice CT technology to Athens, and was awarded CARF certification for its Center for Rehabilitative Medicine. Most recently, St. Mary's and Moe Bishara, M.D., F.A.C.C., formed a partnership to create Athens Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, the only service of its kind in the Athens area.
St. Mary's was founded in 1906 and became a Catholic hospital in 1938. Today
it is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Regional Community of Baltimore.
St. Mary's Medical Center Online Resources
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Saint Joseph's Health System
Atlanta, GA
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta and Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services.
Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1880,
Saint Joseph's Hospital
is Atlanta's oldest hospital. Today, Saint Joseph's is recognized as one
of the leading acute-care, specialty-referral hospitals in the Southeast.
Saint Joseph's was the first hospital in Georgia and remains in the top one
percent of facilities in the nation recognized with the Magnet Award for
Nursing Excellence. The 346-bed hospital also was named one of the top 100
cardiovascular hospitals in the nation in 1999, 2000, and 2001, as well as
one of the top 100 orthopaedic hospitals in the nation in 2000. The facility
offers cardiology, cardiovascular, vascular, oncology, neurology,
orthopaedic, gastroenterology, surgical, outpatient rehabilitation care and
more.
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services was founded in 1984, when doctors and
nurses from the hospital took their concerns for the community to the
streets, addressing the needs of the homeless in downtown shelters and soup
kitchens. Today, Mercy Care treats thousands of clients through its mobile
medical clinic and vans at nearly 20 sites throughout metro Atlanta and at
two Mercy Care fixed sites.
Saint Joseph's Health System is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy of the
Americas, Regional Community of Baltimore.
Saint Joseph's Hospital Online Resources
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