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A major part of the

growing St. Mary’s
system is St. Mary’s
Medical Group,

which provides
primary and specialty
care with more
than 70 employed
physicians and

nurse practitioners
in locations across
Northeast Georgia.

Catholic healthcare system since 1938 St. Mary’s Medical Group also includes
and today is part of Trinity Health, Community Internal Medicine of
one of the nation’s largest Catholic Athens, a primary care clinic
healthcare ministries. St. Mary’s has staffed by Internal Medicine
grown to include: Residency Program resident
physicians and their faculty from
the Augusta University/University
• 196-bed St. Mary’s Hospital on
Baxter Street in Athens of Georgia Medical Partnership.
• 56-bed St. Mary’s Sacred Heart In recent years, St. Mary’s introduced
Hospital in Lavonia minimally invasive neurointerventional
• 25-bed St. Mary’s Good Samaritan biplane technology to the Athens
Hospital in Greensboro area and upgraded its surgical robot
to the state-of-the-art daVinci Xi
All three hospitals offer emergency system. Biplane technology allows
care, surgical services, inpatient care, for minimally invasive treatment
advanced diagnostics, and outpatient of aneurysms, blood vessel
services. In addition, St. Mary’s malformations, strokes caused by
Hospital and Sacred Heart Hospital large-vessel blood clots, and other life-
offer critical care and mother/ threatening conditions. The daVinci Xi
baby services. St. Mary’s in Athens combines state-of-the-art visualization
also offers an expansive range of and miniaturized surgical tools to go
beyond the capability of the human
cardiac services – including balloon eye and hand.
angioplasty and stent implantation,
electrophysiology, pacemakers and St. Mary’s extends its services beyond
other cardiac devices – advanced the hospital with home healthcare/
stroke care with mechanical hospice/palliative care services; a
thrombectomy capabilities, and freestanding outpatient diagnostic,
inpatient rehabilitative medicine. rehabilitation, and Wellness Center;
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