Gwinnett Medical Center

Infobox Hospital
Name = Gwinnett Medical Center

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Location = Gwinnett County
State = Georgia
Country = US
HealthCare = Public, Non-Profit
Type = General
Emergency = II
Beds = 500 (629 in 2009)
Website = http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/|

Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) is a non-profit, 500-bed healthcare network located in Gwinnett County, Georgia. It is comprised of two hospitals, plus several supporting medical facilities, with more than 4,300 employees and more than 800 affiliated physicians. GMC provided care to more than 400,000 patients in 2007. [http://www.gwinnettchamber.org/Gwinnett-Medical-Center-Gwinnett-Hospi.161.0.html]

Campuses

Gwinnett Medical Center's flagship campus is a 175-bed facility in Lawrenceville. GMC is a high-tech and high-quality inpatient, outpatient and emergency/trauma care facility. It is also the site of the Children's Emergency Center, Gwinnett DaySurgery and a sports medicine and rehabilitation center. Its 24-hour emergency services include a Level II trauma center and children’s emergency center. Outpatient services at GMC include:

* Gwinnett DaySurgery
* Outpatient Treatment Center
* Center for Sleep Disorders
* Center for Gastrointestinal & Pulmonary Endoscopy
* Wound Treatment Center (100 Medical Office Building)
* Pain Management Center (575 Professional Building)
* Gwinnett SportsRehab (500 Medical Office Building)
* 575 Outpatient Imaging Center (575 Professional Building) [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/index.php?id=21]

GMC also has an 81-bed hospital campus in Duluth. Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth (GMC-D) includes the latest state-of-the-art technology. It is the first all-digital hospital in the north metro Atlanta area. GMC-D features:

* expanded critical-care capacity
* expanded surgical services with larger operating rooms, recovery and preop areas
* specialty care, including the Center for Orthopedics
* wireless Internet access for patients, families and visitors
* open and closed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units
* state-of-the-art X-ray, computed tomography (CT), ultrasound and mammography equipment
* room service with extensive restaurant-style menu [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/Gwinnett-Medical-Center-Duluth.81.0.html]

Other GMC campuses/facilities include:

* Glancy Campus
* GMC Imaging Center - Hamilton Mill
* Gwinnett Women's Pavilion
* Gwinnett Extended Care Center [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/]

Project PATH

In 2007, Gwinnett Medical Center launched Project PATH — an initiative to Plan to meet the future healthcare needs of Gwinnett; to Advance the clinical quality of healthcare; and to Transform facilities and capacity. Project PATH began with the opening of Gwinnett Medical Center-Duluth. Most recently, Project PATH has seen the construction of a new eight-story tower, scheduled to open in 2009. GMC is also opening new imaging center opening in Hamilton Mill in September 2008. [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/Project-PATH.Funding_Priorities.0.html]

Specialty Services

* Orthopedics
* Neuroscience
* Women's Services
* Cardiology [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/index.php?id=2]

Open Heart Program

Gwinnett County is the most populated county in the nation without open heart surgery. To address this critical lack of care, Gwinnett Medical Center launched a campaign last October to bring open heart services to the county. The lack of an open heart program, coupled with the historically congested roadways between Gwinnett and Atlanta, are cause for serious concern for all residents of Gwinnett. GMC saw a need for the more than one million Georgians in its service area and took action. Its aggressive campaign came to an end on June 5 of this year, when the hospital received the required Certificate of Need from the Georgia Department of Community Health. The open heart surgery program could begin operating as early as 2010, pending appeals from several Atlanta-based hospitals. [http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/04/30/heart.html]

The open heart program would not be possible without the incredible show of support that the people of the Gwinnett community have provided for GMC. The community rallied around the hospital and let its voice be heard, writing more than 1,000 letters in support of open heart services at GMC. One family that wrote such a letter was so committed to GMC’s plan for open heart services that they became the hospital’s first million dollar donors. Another voice of the community was heard when endorsing editorials were written by the Gwinnett Daily Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/07/15/gwinnetted.html]

In addition, local government officials lent their backing. GMC received supportive proclamations from the Gwinnett County Commissioners, the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Partnership Gwinnett, the City of Lawrenceville, the City of Duluth, the City of Suwannee, the City of Lilburn and 15 Georgia House Representatives. The county commissioners went so far as to offer $5 million for capital expansion for each of the next five years--a total of $25 million. [http://www.openheartgwinnett.org/]

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References

External links

* [http://www.gwinnettchamber.org/Gwinnett-Medical-Center-Gwinnett-Hospi.161.0.html Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce: Gwinnett Medical Center]
* [http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/ Official Web site of Gwinnett Medical Center]
* [http://www.openheartgwinnett.org/ Official Web site of Gwinnett Medical Center's Open Heart Campaign]