{"id":222824,"date":"2025-05-30T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=222824"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:46:13","slug":"a-new-wellstar-hospital-is-coming-to-acworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=222824","title":{"rendered":"A New Wellstar Hospital is Coming to Acworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Marietta-based Wellstar Health System is planning to build a 230-bed hospital in Acworth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellstar has filed a letter of intent with the Georgia Department of Community Health, the first step toward obtaining a certificate of need (CON) for the project, the company announced Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellstar Health System President and CEO Candice Saunders cited population growth in northwestern Cobb County as the main driver in the need for a new hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wellstar is improving access to care, and this new hospital is the latest in a series of projects to do just that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The area is growing so much that even when our new tower at Wellstar Kennestone opens next year, the region will need more hospital beds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Access to health care has been expanding throughout Cobb County, but we still have an unmet need for hospital beds in the northern portion of our county,&#8221; Cobb County Commission Chair Lisa Cupid added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the new <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Acworth\"   title=\"Acworth\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1534\">Acworth<\/a> hospital and the 200-plus bed tower being added at Wellstar Kennestone, Wellstar also is building a new 100-bed hospital and medical office building in Columbia County, adding a new oncology center to Wellstar Spalding hospital, and expanding Wellstar Paulding with a new 56-bed tower and parking deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wellstart also is partnering with Augusta University Medical College of Georgia&#8217;s Center for Digital Health to give rural hospitals access to specialty care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company plans to file a CON application for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Acworth\"   title=\"Acworth\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1535\">Acworth<\/a> hospital by June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marietta-based Wellstar Health System is planning to build a 230-bed hospital in Acworth. Wellstar has filed a letter of intent with the Georgia Department of Community Health, the first step toward obtaining a certificate of need (CON) for the project, the company announced Thursday. Wellstar Health System President and CEO Candice Saunders cited population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":29513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11786],"tags":[10346],"class_list":["post-222824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-wellstar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}