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Marietta Daily Journal
Wellstar transfers 44 NICU babies to new Kennestone tower
This week, more than 100 staff members at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital banded together to successfully transfer their most vulnerable patients to the hospital’s new neonatal intensive care unit, located inside the facility’s new tower. Wellstar physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and caregivers successfully transferred 44 babies from the hospital’s former NICU to its new 300,000-square-foot Yellow Tower, where a new state-of-the-art NICU is located. During the operation, staff worked to ensure each baby remained connected to lifesaving equipment throughout the move to ensure their health was not compromised. Capacity in the new facility has more than doubled from the previous NICU, holding a total of 49 beds. Currently, 47 babies are receiving care inside the new facility, including the 44 transferred to the new wing during the move. Among the other amenities located inside the NICU include private patient spaces; advanced monitoring technology; six couplet care rooms that allow mothers and newborns receiving NICU care to remain together; and a centralized milk lab that prepares customized nutrition for premature and critically ill infants. The Yellow Tower, which opened in April, was designed to increase capacity and enhance specialized care across metro Atlanta. Designs for the new NICU began in 2019, according
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Employees react after Wellstar Health System lays off 761 employees
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Hundreds of employees of a Marietta based healthcare system are now without a job after Wellstar Health System announced lay offs on Tuesday. On Wednesday, employees who still have their jobs told Atlanta News First they are worried about what happens next. “It...
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Atlanta’s HIV Crisis Meets New Federal Funding Squeeze
Metro Atlanta is still carrying one of the nation’s heaviest HIV burdens, even as Washington reshapes how prevention money reaches the community groups doing the day-to-day work. The latest local warning is blunt: infection rates remain “unacceptably high,” while new federal funding changes have put testing, PrEP referrals and rapid linkage to care under fresh scrutiny.
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Braselton Hospital Unleashes 180,000-Square-Foot ER To Tackle Patient Surge
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Environmental groups plan to sue Atlanta over pollution from airport into Flint River
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NGMC Braselton: New 180,000-square-foot emergency department opens
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton opened a new 180,000-square-foot emergency department on Saturday to handle rapid population growth. The facility doubled its waiting area and treatment room count, adding specialized trauma, stroke, and behavioral health spaces. A new helipad, ambulance bay, CT scan suite, and four operating rooms were also...
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The Businesses That Opened During COVID—and Are Still Here
Most businesses open with a plan: attract customers, build a reputation and gradually become part of the neighborhood. The businesses that opened in 2020 had a different challenge. They were trying to introduce themselves while customers were staying home, dining rooms were restricted and many people were unsure when ordinary life would return.
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Tiny Fighters Get Big Upgrade as Marietta Hospital Opens High-Tech NICU in Yellow Tower
New parents in Cobb County just got a serious boost in backup. Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center has started caring for its tiniest patients in a newly opened neonatal intensive care unit inside the hospital's Yellow Tower, shifting dozens of newborns into the space after months of planning. The reimagined NICU focuses on private rooms, expanded family areas and upgraded monitoring so parents can stay close to babies who need specialized care. Hospital leaders say the setup should keep more newborns in Marietta instead of sending them to hospitals farther from home.
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Hammes celebrates final move phase of Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center’s new bed tower
Hammes, a national real estate consulting, development, investment and management firm, is proud to celebrate the final move into Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center’s approximately 300,000-square-foot, nine-story patient tower in Marietta, Georgia. Hammes has served as Wellstar’s project manager for the new tower, which represents a major investment in expanded hospital capacity, specialty care and the patient experience.
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MAHS graduate returns to her roots to practice medicine in her hometown of Monroe
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