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Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Annual list of best hospitals released; Here are top Georgia hospitals
The Brief Emory University Hospital was ranked the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta for the 14th year in a row, with national recognition in Geriatrics, Neurology & Neurosurgery, and Urology. Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital placed No. 2 statewide for the tenth consecutive year, while Emory University Hospital Midtown ranked No. 5 in Georgia and No. 4 in Atlanta. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta earned national rankings in 10 pediatric specialties, including top-15 placements in pediatric cancer, cardiology, GI surgery, and orthopedics. ATLANTA - Three Emory Healthcare hospitals are once again recognized among Georgia's top medical centers, according to the 2025–26 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. What we know Emory University Hospital was named the No. 1 hospital in Georgia and metro Atlanta for the 14th year in a row. It also earned national rankings in Geriatrics (42nd), Neurology & Neurosurgery (33rd), and Urology (41st), and was rated high performing in several specialties, including Cancer and Heart & Vascular Surgery. Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital came in No. 2 in Georgia and Atlanta for the tenth consecutive year. It received high-performing marks in Geriatrics, Orthopaedics, Urology, and more. Emory University Hospital Midtown ranked No. 5 in Georgia and No. 4 in metro Atlanta. Emory Johns Creek Hospital was noted as high performing in GI Surgery, Geriatrics, and Neurology. These rankings are based on an evaluation of more than 4,400 hospitals across the country, analyzing 30 medical and surgical specialties using patient outcomes and safety data. Other top Georgia hospitals recognized: No. 3 Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville No. 4 Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, Atlanta No. 6 Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta No. 7 Northside Hospital Cherokee, Canton No. 7 Piedmont Athens Regional, Athens No. 9 Northside Hospital Forsyth No. 9 Piedmont Fayette Hospital, Fayetteville No. 11 AdventHealth Redmond, Rome No. 11 Northside Hospital, Atlanta No. 11 Northside Hospital Gwinnett No. 14 Atrium Health Navicent, Macon No. 15 Piedmont Augusta Hospital, Augusta These hospitals are among 504 "Best Regional Hospitals" across 49 states and 95 metro areas. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta was also ranked as one of the best hospitals for children in the Southeast by U.S. News. Children's was ranked No. 19 nationally for Neonatology; 12th for pediatric cancer; 12th for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery; 32nd for pediatric diabetes and endocrinology; 13th for pediatric gastroenterology and GI surgery; 13th for pediatric nephrology; 14th for pediatric neurology and neurosurgery; 8th for pediatric orthopedics; 22nd for pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery; and 14th for pediatric urology. Why you should care "Most health care decisions are made close to home," said Ben Harder, U.S. News' chief of health analysis. "These rankings help families choose the highest-quality care available in their communities." National Honor Roll U.S. News also named 20 hospitals nationwide to its 2025–26 Honor Roll, including Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Massachusetts General Hospital. No Georgia hospitals made the Honor Roll. The full rankings are available at Solve the daily Crossword
7NEWS
18-06-2025
- Health
- 7NEWS
Baby of brain-dead US woman Adriana Smith kept alive under Georgia abortion law delivered
The baby of Adriana Smith, a brain-dead pregnant woman in the US who has been kept alive by ventilators under Georgia's abortion law, has been delivered. The baby, named Chance, was born prematurely via emergency cesarean section on Friday, Smith's mother April Newkirk said. Chance weighed about one pound 13 ounces (822g) and is in the neonatal intensive care unit. 'He's expected to be OK,' Newkirk said. 'He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him.' Smith also has an older son. Newkirk did not immediately respond to a new request for comment. She previously said the family was required to keep Smith alive under the state's near-total abortion ban, known as the LIFE Act. Smith, whose family celebrated her 31st birthday on Sunday, has been hospitalised since February after she initially sought treatment for severe headaches, her family has said. Newkirk said Smith initially went to Northside Hospital but was released and given medication. She said the hospital did not run any scans or tests. Northside did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. A day after she sought treatment, Smith's boyfriend woke to find her gasping for air and making gargling noises, Newkirk said. Smith was rushed to Emory Decatur Hospital and transferred to Emory University Hospital, where a CT scan showed multiple blood clots in her brain. Newkirk said her daughter was declared brain-dead and placed on a ventilator. Smith will be taken off life support on Tuesday, local time. 'It's kind of hard, you know,' she said. 'It's hard to process.' In Georgia, abortions are illegal after six weeks of pregnancy. Exceptions include some situations to protect women's lives and health, when fetal anomalies are detected and in cases of rape and incest that have been documented with police. The state Attorney General's Office said in May that nothing in the LIFE Act 'requires medical professionals to keep a woman on life support after brain death'. The office said removing a patient from life support 'is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy'. However, Republican state senator Ed Setzler, who sponsored the 2019 law, told The Associated Press that he supported the hospital's actions. 'I think it is completely appropriate that the hospital do what they can to save the life of the child,' he said. 'I think this is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life. 'I think the hospital is acting appropriately.' Emory Healthcare did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson said in a statement last month that it 'uses consensus from clinical experts, medical literature and legal guidance to support our providers as they make individualised treatment recommendations in compliance with Georgia's abortion laws and all other applicable laws'.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
The 'corpse' expecting a baby: Pregnant Adriana's braindead and decomposing but doctors won't turn off life-support. Now her family say it's 'torture' in case that's divided the world
In the intensive care unit of a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, lies a patient whose fate has set millions of her fellow Americans at each other's throats. They're not fighting, however, over 30-year-old Adriana Smith's right to live – but her right to die. Adriana, a local nurse, was nine weeks pregnant when she went to a hospital back in February seeking treatment for intense headaches. Doctors sent her home with some medication but they didn't conduct a CT scan. The next morning she woke up struggling to breathe and making terrifying gargling sounds. The hospital discovered she had blood clots in her brain and, after an unsuccessful surgery to relieve the pressure, she was declared brain-dead. Given she already has a seven-year-old son who will now be left without a mother, the situation for Adriana and her loved ones was already terrible. However, critics say the situation has turned from tragedy into 'an absolute horror show' after Emory University Hospital – where the nurse previously worked – informed Adriana's family that, although she was legally dead, she was not allowed to die. The apparent reason, according to the hospital's spokesman, is that it's acting 'in compliance with Georgia's abortion laws'. As such, the hospital has reportedly demanded Adriana be kept alive on breathing and feeding tubes until specialists have determined the male foetus is sufficiently developed to be delivered – by caesarean section – as a baby boy. That is scheduled to occur in early August. Removing her from life support until that time, health officials reportedly believe, would violate Georgia's strict anti-abortion laws – which prohibit termination once a foetal heartbeat is detected, typically at around six weeks. The state's controversial law, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which was dubbed the 'heartbeat Bill' does contain an exception to save the life of the mother. But that doesn't apply to Adriana Smith, as her life is beyond saving. Her family say they hadn't made up their minds whether to switch off her life support systems but, at this nightmarish moment, are deeply upset that the decision has been taken out of their hands by faceless bureaucrats. 'This is torture for me,' her distraught mother April Newkirk told local TV station 11Alive. 'I see my daughter breathing by the ventilator but she's not there.' What's more, she revealed that the baby – who the family have named 'Chance' – has hydrocephalus, or fluid on the brain. Even if he survives the pregnancy (which is increasingly uncertain), he could be born with severe disabilities. 'He may be blind, may not be able to walk, may not survive once he's born,' Ms Newkirk said. 'Right now, the journey is for baby Chance to survive. Whatever condition God allows him to come here in, we're going to love him just the same.' While Georgia's heartbeat law was narrowly passed in 2019, it did not come into effect until three years later after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. Three other states have similar abortion bans that come into force around the six-week mark and 12 states bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Legal experts are in little doubt what is worrying Adriana's healthcare provider – a part of the Georgia law that gives foetuses legal rights as 'members of the species Homo sapiens'. If Adriana and the foetus are two patients with separate legal rights, even if the mother dies, the hospital might have a legal obligation to keep the foetus alive. But doctors anticipate there will be more problems for the child, pointing out life-support systems are not designed for long-term treatment of brain-dead patients. With blood no longer running to the mother's brain, the organ is starting to decompose. 'The chance of there being a healthy newborn at the end of this is very, very small,' said Steven Ralston, the director of the maternal foetal medicine division at George Washington University in Washington DC. The gruesome medical situation and apparent helplessness of Adriana's family has sparked the ire of the 'pro-choice', pro-abortion lobby, with critics saying the case demonstrates a 'pro-life' philosophy that ends up being anything but humane. Predictably, some opponents have likened Georgia to Gilead, the fictional America in Margaret Atwood's chilling novel The Handmaid's Tale. In this dystopian world, much of the US is ruled by a brutal Christian fundamentalist government which – to tackle a severe infertility crisis – forces the few women who can conceive to devote their lives to producing offspring for ruling men. While drawing an analogy with the book – a popular Democrat pastime in MAGA America – is once again a fairly extreme view, critics are correct in saying the state's leaders should have seen this coming. Legal experts say the vague way anti-abortion laws are written will naturally make doctors and hospitals worried about facing criminal charges. And they should have foreseen, too, how the movement (currently gaining ground in the US) to establish so-called 'foetal personhood' – whereby a foetus should have legal rights, including the right to life – would inevitably end up pitting the rights of the mother against those of their unborn child. Now, keen to avert a public relations crisis that could lose them votes in a key swing state, even some of Georgia's conservatives are fighting back by claiming that Georgia's LIFE law is being misinterpreted. The state's Republican attorney general, Chris Carr, last week released a statement declaring the law does not require doctors to keep brain-dead patients alive, because turning off the life support 'is not an action with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy'. Others disagree, however, and say the hospital has taken the correct – and humane – course. 'While Adriana can no longer speak for herself, her son's life still matters. Her doctors are doing the right thing by treating him as a unique patient,' said Students for Life of America, a national anti-abortion group which has even launched a campaign to raise money to help Adriana's family. Georgia state Senator Ed Setzler, who sponsored the state's abortion crackdown, has agreed, saying: 'I think there's a valuable human life that we have an opportunity to save, and I think it's the right thing to save it. To suggest otherwise is to declare the child as being other than human. 'This is an unusual circumstance, but I think it highlights the value of innocent human life.' It's certainly an 'unusual circumstance' but it's actually not the first time an American woman has been kept on life support because of a pregnancy. In 2014, Texan Marlise Munoz collapsed on her kitchen floor when she was 14 weeks pregnant. The hospital informed her husband and parents that she was brain-dead because of a pulmonary embolism. However, medical staff refused to honour Marlise's previously stated wish not to be kept alive by machines, citing a state law that stopped hospitals from withdrawing or withholding 'life-sustaining treatment from a pregnant patient'. Marlise's husband launched a legal battle to get her taken off life support, during which the family revealed the foetus was severely deformed due to oxygen deprivation and the fact it was developing in a brain-dead body. A judge ruled in the husband's favour and Marlise was removed from organ support before the baby was born. But 2014 was a very different America – less riven by culture wars and a triumphalist Donald Trump who was voted in as President on a wave of anti-abortion sentiment driven by supporters in the so-called 'Bible Belt' states of the South and Midwest. There's no indication Adriana Smith's ghastly limbo state – neither alive nor entirely dead – is due to end any time soon.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Yahoo
Argument turns into gunfire in Atlanta, 2 men injured
Atlanta police are investigating an apparent shootout that injured two men. On Saturday at approximately 2:44 a.m., officers responded to 1789 Cheshire Bridge Road NE to reports of a shooting. Officers found a 31-year-old man who was shot in his right arm, his back, and his head. Police said he was not alert or conscious but was breathing. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Soon after that, officers received a call about a 23-year-old man who had taken himself to Emory University Hospital suffering from gunshot wounds. That man was shot in both of his legs. Police determined that the two men were involved in an argument with each other that escalated to gunfire. Investigators with the Major Crimes Response Unit responded to the scene to investigate. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: This Georgia city is one of the most overweight in the U.S., new study shows Man charged with trying to kidnap child from Acworth Walmart Suspended UGA lineman arrested after crashing car into apartment complex, report says [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
