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Georgia Senate seeks to allow rural hospitals without permit

Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert, Ga., shown here on Oct. 7, 2022, closed in 2020. Georgia senators on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, approved a measure that would allow new hospitals to be built in rural counties without state permission. (ASSOCIATED PRESS/file)

rural hospitals — Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert, Ga., shown here on Oct. 7, 2022, closed in 2020. Georgia senators on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, approved a measure that would allow new hospitals to be built in rural counties without state permission. (ASSOCIATED PRESS/file)

ATLANTA — Georgia senators want to allow new hospitals to be built in counties with fewer than 50,000 residents without state permission, a measure particularly aimed at allowing an undisclosed entity to build a new hospital in the home county of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.

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