Coastal Ga. Rural Hospitals Offer Top-Shelf Care
Published Aug 18, 2009
When it comes to availability of quality health care, Coastal Georgia’s smaller communities don’t take a back seat to more populous locales.
Residents of Statesboro and the surrounding areas turn to East Georgia Regional Medical Center, a state-of-the-art, 150-room hospital that includes specialty services in imaging and diagnostics, surgical, and women’s and children’s care.
Willingway Hospital in Statesboro is a facility founded by a local couple in the 1960s that specializes in alcohol and drug addiction treatments. Willingway, the first Georgia hospital to specialize in dependency treatment, has cared for more than 20,000 patients.
Effingham Hospital and Care Center was named a Hospital of Choice Award winner in winter 2009 by the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers. The Springfield hospital was selected from among 400 customer-friendly, U.S. hospitals.
The 25-bed Screven County Hospital serves the Sylvania community’s primary-care needs.
Liberty Regional Medical Center in Hinesville is a 133-bed hospital that provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient services.
The hospital sees 25,000 patients come through its ER each year and is considering a sizeable expansion. It opened its current 70,000-square-foot facility in 1998.
Hospital leaders take pride in offering a quality of service that many rural hospitals can’t claim.
“We do the very best we can so that we can say, ‘Yes, you can travel, but you won’t get any better service than what we offer here,’” says Scott Kroell, CEO of LRMC. “That has been our goal with any service we have, or anytime we add a service, to make sure that it’s as good or better than any in the area.”
Story by Michaela Jackson
Photo by Brian McCord
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