Hospitals Lay Out Claims to Columbia County

Friday, June 19th, 2015

Attorneys for the two hospitals that the state denied permission to build a Columbia County facility took turns Thursday attacking the winning application submitted by Georgia Regents Medical Center.

Doctors Hospital and University Hospital are appealing their denials last year by the Georgia Department of Community Health. A hearing officer, Ellwood F. Oakley III, started the proceedings by pointing to eight three-ring binders on the table beside him, each containing hundreds of pages of evidence.

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