Creating a Healthier Future for Georgia
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Wellstar Health System and Augusta University Health System Announce Definitive Agreement for Statewide Partnership
On March 31, 2023, Wellstar Health System and Augusta University Health System (AUHS), with approval from both organizations’ boards, reached an agreement to form an innovative, new partnership that will create a broader affiliation with the university’s Medical College of Georgia (MCG).
Wellstar, AUHS and MCG share a mission to solve health care challenges across the state, and together, they will drive significant advances in clinical care, academic teaching and research in Georgia. By combining the best of community health care and academic medicine, the organizations will make a transformational impact on improving the health and wellbeing of each patient they serve – creating a healthier future for Georgia.
To accomplish this, the partnership will focus on five key areas:
For more information, read the full announcement here.
Wellstar, AUHS and MCG share a mission to solve health care challenges across the state, and together, they will drive significant advances in clinical care, academic teaching and research in Georgia. By combining the best of community health care and academic medicine, the organizations will make a transformational impact on improving the health and wellbeing of each patient they serve – creating a healthier future for Georgia.
To accomplish this, the partnership will focus on five key areas:
- Access to Expertise: Creating an ecosystem of care that provides the most advanced clinical care, innovated academic teaching models, and lifesaving research to all corners of the state and beyond.
- Expanding the Pipeline of Clinicians: Making significant investments to increase the number of clinicians trained in Georgia at the Medical College of Georgia.
- Care Innovation: Creating new and innovative clinical care offerings and models to enhance the health and well-being of patients we serve.
- Pediatric Care: Bringing Wellstar and AUHS’s exemplary pediatric care to more Georgians across the state through Children’s Hospital of Georgia and Wellstar’s dedicated pediatric care and emergency departments.
- Digital Health: Making significant investments in improving clinical IT, modernizing digital care centers, and adding remote care offerings backed by the academic medical expertise of the Medical College of Georgia.
For more information, read the full announcement here.
Creating a Healthier Future for Georgia
On December 27, 2022, Wellstar Health System and Augusta University Health System (AUHS) signed a letter of intent to form an innovative new partnership that would expand Augusta University’s educational and research missions, and allow Wellstar to create a broader affiliation and partnership with the university’s Medical College of Georgia (MCG) as AUHS joins Wellstar.
Most of our day-to-day operations will remain the same, and patients should continue to access and receive care as they currently do. By joining forces and working together, the organizations can expand opportunities for students to learn and train in the medical field, and in turn, provide support for more patients across the state.
The proposed partnership would innovate clinical care, training and research while adopting a successful model of bringing together community-based health systems and academic medical centers such as MCG and its teaching hospitals. Overall, the future partnership would focus on creating a healthier future for Georgia.
Together, Wellstar’s resources as one of the most advanced health systems in the state, AUHS’s expertise in academic medicine and MCG’s nationally recognized medical education would drive tremendous expansion and innovation in clinical care, academic teaching and research in Georgia.
Pending a definitive agreement and regulatory approval, the partnership would focus on three strategic initiatives:
We are excited for the opportunities this would bring for our organizations to make a greater impact on Georgians across the state.
For more information, read the full announcement here
Most of our day-to-day operations will remain the same, and patients should continue to access and receive care as they currently do. By joining forces and working together, the organizations can expand opportunities for students to learn and train in the medical field, and in turn, provide support for more patients across the state.
The proposed partnership would innovate clinical care, training and research while adopting a successful model of bringing together community-based health systems and academic medical centers such as MCG and its teaching hospitals. Overall, the future partnership would focus on creating a healthier future for Georgia.
Together, Wellstar’s resources as one of the most advanced health systems in the state, AUHS’s expertise in academic medicine and MCG’s nationally recognized medical education would drive tremendous expansion and innovation in clinical care, academic teaching and research in Georgia.
Pending a definitive agreement and regulatory approval, the partnership would focus on three strategic initiatives:
- Expanding digital health offerings across the state to create more convenient access to care and provide more individualized care regardless of location.
- Growing the pipeline of physicians and other health care providers serving Georgia by increasing the number of students who train and conduct research through MCG.
- Developing new treatments, innovative care offerings and scalable care models to optimize the health and well-being of every person each organization serves.
We are excited for the opportunities this would bring for our organizations to make a greater impact on Georgians across the state.
For more information, read the full announcement here