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Floyd Accepts Preliminary Plan to Manage Centre Hospital

Floyd Accepts Preliminary Plan to Manage Centre Hospital.

During a specially called meeting of Floyd Healthcare Management Inc. (FHMI) on Thursday, April 12, 2018, the board voted to accept the invitation of the Cherokee County Health Care Authority (CCHCA) for a Floyd subsidiary to manage Cherokee Medical Center in the event that CCHCA purchases the hospital. The arrangement would be a lease management agreement at no purchase or lease price by Floyd other than $1.

Certain contingencies and regulatory requirements must be met before the lease will become final. 

Cherokee Medical Center is a 60-bed hospital in Centre, Ala., serving residents and visitors of Cherokee County, Ala., with an array of services including diagnostic imaging, drug and alcohol treatment, emergency care, laboratory services, nutritional services, pharmacy, respiratory care, rehabilitation services, surgical services and subacute rehabilitation care.

About Atrium Health Floyd

The Atrium Health Floyd family of health care services is a leading medical provider and economic force in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd is part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Floyd strategically combined with Harbin Clinic in 2024 and employs more than 5,200 teammates who provide care in over 40 medical specialties at four facilities: Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center – a 361-bed full-service, acute care hospital and regional referral center in Rome, Georgia; Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center in Cedartown, Georgia; and Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center in Centre, Alabama; and Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Behavioral Health, also in Rome. Together, Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic provide primary care, specialty care and urgent care throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd also operates a stand-alone emergency department in Chattooga County, the first such facility to be built from the ground-up in Georgia.