Budget Primer Health Justice Laura Harker Reports Georgia Health Budget Primer for State Fiscal Year 2018 July 12, 2017 / March 23, 2021 by Laura Harker Georgia Health Care Budget Overview Health care services are primarily delivered through three state agencies: the departments of Community Health, Public Health and Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. State funding for these three agencies totals $4.5 billion in 2018, about 18 percent of total state spending. General Fund appropriations for these agencies account for $3.9 […] Read more » Behavioral Health Department of Public Health health Hospitals medicaid PeachCare
Health Justice Timothy Sweeney Struggling Health Care System Just Part of What Ails Rural Georgia November 20, 2015 / January 17, 2020 by Timothy Sweeney Georgia is burdened with a host of health challenges across the state, from an uninsured rate that ranks among the highest in the nation to its lack of health care providers. This figures to be exacerbated by a financial crisis at the rural hospital in Fort Oglethorpe this month. Many patients lack access to needed […] Read more » health Hospitals Rural
