Health Care
Albany-Dougherty County is the health care hub of Southwest Georgia, and is home to two world-class hospitals, dozens of specialty practice centers and more than 300 physicians. Both hospitals are fully accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The community hospital houses the Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency program; serves as a satellite campus for the Medical College of Georgia, locally training third- and fourth-year medical students; and has partnered with the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy to teach graduate-level pharmacy courses at the Albany campus.
Area Hospitals
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is a 443-bed teaching hospital and a regional center for cancer and cardiac medicine. The Phoebe Cancer Center is one of the busiest and most advanced in the Southeast. The Phoebe Heart Center performs more open-heart and cardiac catheterization procedures than all other hospitals in the region combined. Phoebe is one of only six designated perinatal centers in the state of Georgia and is the regions only provider of neonatal intensive care, cardiovascular surgery and radiation oncology services. The hospital operates satellite facilities throughout Southwest Georgia. Phoebe has more than 300 physicians on staff and employs about 3,800 professionals.
Palmyra Medical Center
Palmyra Medical Center is a 248-bed medical center with more than 200 on-staff physicians, a medical support staff of more than 400 employees and nearly 100 volunteers. The Bariatric Institute of Southwest Georgia at Palmyra and its medical director, John Bagnato, M.D., were named an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence.
