![]() ![]() Paris worried that the lack of a hospital could scare away people and businesses that were thinking of moving to the area. ![]() Losing a hospital can put a rural community - and the health of its residents - in jeopardy. “It was seen as a very tragic situation, a very emergency-type situation.” “Most people couldn’t imagine life without a hospital in the county,” he said. The chief executive of the the hospital’s parent company had said it was losing money.Īccording to Charlie Paris, chair of the Gilmer County Board of Commissioners, people took the closure hard. In the Appalachian foothill community roughly 80 miles outside Atlanta, North Georgia Medical Center was closing down. Back in 2016, Gilmer County, Georgia, had a problem. ![]()
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