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Pillar of Prosperity: Healthcare

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QU ALIT Y
entering a healthcare and social assistance sector
Healthcare that employs an incredible 14 percent of Coweta
County’s workforce with an average salary of
$50,000 per full-time employee.
The high percentage of employment
dedicated to healthcare and the recent influx
of nationally recognized hospitals to the area
Health & Wellness Ensures Prosperity make Coweta County a new healthcare mecca.

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One of six pillars that holds Coweta County’s economic
prosperity up high is healthcare. Results from a recent study
concluded that 10 of the 20 fastest-growing occupations are
in the healthcare field.

n the last decade alone, healthcare and a VA clinic. These facilities not only have
employment has increased by 23 percent. succeeded in delivering compassionate care for
The study also concluded that 21 new local and out-of-state patients and their families,
Ijobs are created for every new physician but also they have created an economic boom
brought into the local economy, generating that has significantly impacted the community,
more than $2 million in local revenue. even spreading into the educational sector. In
Coweta County has seen three new 2015, 1,658 of the technical college graduates in
hospitals established in the last 10 years, along Coweta County earned degrees in the medical
with countless other healthcare facilities ranging field and 222 students graduated from the
from urgent care, specialty care, women’s health University of West Georgia with an RN, RN-BSN
Ansley Park
services, hospice and assisted living facilities or MSN degree. The new nurse graduates are

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