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clinical laboratory; wound care and
infusion center; pediatric subspecialty
clinic; inpatient hospice house; and
Highland Hills Village retirement
community and memory care center.
St. Mary’s Accolades & Achievements
• Full Joint Commission
accreditation plus certification in
seven specialty areas – stroke,
heart failure, knee and hip
replacement surgery, inpatient
diabetes, spine surgery, and
COPD care
• Gold-plus award for stroke care
from the American Heart
Association/American Stroke
Association 11 years in a row,
including the Target:Stroke Honor
Roll Elite category in 2020.
• Certification as a certified Chest
Pain Center with Primary PCI, the
gold standard for heart attack
care by the American College
of Cardiology
• Named Georgia’s Large Hospital
of the Year four times since 2006
by the Georgia Alliance of
Community Hospitals
LANDMARK HOSPITAL
OF ATHENS
Landmark Hospital of Athens, the
area’s only long-term acute care
hospital (LTACH), opened in July
2008 to serve the Northeast Georgia
community. The facility includes 42
private rooms that are all intensive
care unit (ICU) capable.

Landmark Hospital is a regional
referral center for North Georgia,
serving as the place for other
hospitals to send critically ill patients
who need long-term acute care.
Many of its patients require long-term
specialty treatment due to multiple or
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
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