The Rural Hospital Tax Credit, administered through the nonprofit Georgia HEART, allows taxpayers to receive a dollar-for-dollar state income tax credit when they donate to qualified rural hospitals.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — A man traveled over 1,400 miles to the Peach State for what would be Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in Gainesville's first robotic heart surgery. Robotic surgeries, the ...

Fri, April 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM UTC COWETA COUNTY, Ga. - Tray Baggarly beat incredible odds and survived, according to his cardiologist, Dr. Tesfaye Telila who says 9 out 10 people who experience ...

FITZGERALD, Ga. (WALB) - Colony Bank’s recent $400K contribution to ten rural hospitals across Georgia through the Georgia HEART Hospital Program. The program will help amplify healthcare funding and ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - February is American Heart Month, and heart disease doesn’t discriminate against age. Kayla Hancock was 20 weeks pregnant with her now four-year-old son Oliver, when she found out ...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. - Eddie Payne is working out again, at Piedmont Eastside Medical Center Cardiac Rehabilitation Center in Snellville, Georgia. As a handful of heart patient move from one fitness ...

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia heart patients are donating their used pacemakers to pets. Channel 2 Anchor Craig Lucie met an 11-year-old husky who is alive today because of one of those used devices. The ...

Heart valve disease has no effective long-term treatment, and people who suffer from it have to endure repeated, invasive surgeries throughout their lives to survive. Researchers at Georgia Tech and ...

After more than 200 days in the hospital waiting for a donor, a 6-year-old Georgia boy is finally home — and embracing a second chance at life, according to Atlanta News First. Khu’meri Williams of ...

Athens (Ga.) Heart Center and surgeon Subodh Agrawal, MD, have been ordered by a state court jury to pay $4.36 million in medical malpractice damages following the 2017 death of a patient, according ...