FILE - Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert, Ga., shown here on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, closed in 2020. The Georgia state Senate passed a bill on March 14, 2024, that would let the hospital reopen without a state permit, called a certificate of need. FILE- A man passes Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, before the hospital closed in 2022.
The measure would allow the historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine to open a hospital in central Atlanta that could provide services once offered by the now-shutteredfor more than 12 months. That could allow a hospital in the southwest Georgia town of Cuthbert that closed in 2020 to reopen. “For decades, CON laws have unfortunately represented a barrier to expanding quality healthcare,” Jones said in a statement Thursday “Today, we took a step towards reforming CON in Georgia and alleviating the roadblocks Georgians face in their efforts to receive accessible and quality healthcare.”Proposed limit on Georgia film tax credit could become meaningless if studios are protected