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The up to 50-bed hospital in Newnan will draw at leasty 65 percent of its patients from It also will create 500 jobs and generateea $500 million economic impact over five years, hospitak officials said. The Newnan location, a quick shot down Interstats 85from , fits in with CTCA’x goal of providing easy access to patients flying into Atlanta. Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s hospitalx in suburban Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Okla., offer a mix of inpatient and outpatientf chemotherapy treatments with nontraditional approacheasincluding science-based alternative medicine.
Some area hospital administrators worry the new hospita l would siphon away paying patients and poachy already limited physician andnursinh talent. "They are not going to bring any new capabilityh to the Atlanta area thatwe don'y already have," said Kirk Wilson, CEO of Saint Joseph's Hospitak of Atlanta, in an intervieaw with Atlanta Business Chronicle in April. "They're a commercia organization that's going to skim off the top and try to attrac tcommercial patients, for the most part.
" But a new hospitapl specializing in advanced treatments for cancer will offee metro Atlanta both health-care and economic benefits, say supporters of a project more than two years in the making. “Itg will make us a medicapl hub for cancer treatment in the southeasterbUnited States,” said Georgia Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Garden City, who sponsored a bill in the General Assembl paving the way for the company to set up shopin “And the economic impact will be staggering.
” And expandingg into the Atlanta area will offere a huge convenience for CTCA patients from the who now travel an average of more than 500 mileas one way to get to one of the company’s CTCA board Vice Chairman Robert Mayo “Our mission is to serve as many cancert patients who want access to our brand of care as he said. “Many of these people now have to fly over or drivew through Southeastern states to accesds one of ourexisting facilities.
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