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St. Mary’s extends its services LANDMARK HOSPITAL
St. Mary’s Accolades beyond the hospital with home OF ATHENS
& Achievements healthcare/hospice services; a
• Full Joint Commission accreditation plus freestanding outpatient diagnostic, Landmark Hospital of Athens, the
certification in seven specialty areas – rehabilitation and Wellness Center; area’s only long-term acute care hospital
stroke, heart failure, knee and hip replacement clinical laboratory; sleep disorders (LTACH), opened in July 2008 to serve
surgery, inpatient diabetes, spine surgery and COPD care centers; wound care and infusion the Northeast Georgia community. The
facility includes 42 private rooms that are
• Georgia’s Large Hospital of the Year 2018 – Georgia center; pediatric subspecialty all intensive care unit (ICU) capable.
Alliance of Community Hospitals – the fourth time clinic; inpatient hospice house, and center for North Georgia, serving as the
Landmark Hospital is a regional referral
HEALTHCARE • Certification as a certified Chest Pain Center – community and memory place for other hospitals to send critically
since 2006 St. Mary’s has received the honor
Highland Hills Village retirement
Primary PCI – the gold standard for heart attack care
care center.
ill patients who need long-term acute care.
Many of its patients require long-term
• Gold-plus award for stroke care – American Heart Association/
For more information, please
specialty treatment due to multiple or
American Stroke Association – ten years in a row
visit www.stmarysathens.org.
complex medical conditions. Patients range
in age from 18 to the elderly. The average
length of stay for patients is 25 days.
Landmark’s approach to healing
includes pulmonary and mechanical
ventilator management, complex
wound care, hemodialysis, infectious
disease treatment, rehabilitation, post
trauma recovery, and pet/music therapy.
Landmark also offers in-house physical
therapy, occupational therapy, speech
therapy, a low patient-to-staff ratio,
multiple medical specialists, a pharmacy,
dietician, and chaplain.

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