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Health Care
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Health Care
For the fourth year in a row, Forsyth County ranks as Georgia’s healthiest
county, with #1 ratings in longevity, quality of life, and health behaviors,
and ranking high in clinical care, social and economic factors. It’s easy to
see why.
Excellent health care options are
available right here in Forsyth
County, and specialized medical
services and teaching hospitals are
located in nearby Atlanta. Whether the patient visits last year across a full range of
common cold strikes or something more serious,
Forsyth County residents know they are always in
good hands.
• Northside Hospital Forsyth •
Northside Hospital is one of the most respected
and fastest growing health care organizations in
the Southeast, and Northside Hospital Forsyth
is no different. In the 14 years since Northside
purchased the Cumming hospital, it has seen
tremendous growth in services and its presence in
the community. That growth doesn’t seem to be
slowing down anytime soon.
Today, the 1-million-square-foot Northside
Hospital Forsyth medical campus has more than
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2,600 employees and 2,400 physicians. It includes
the 231-bed hospital, a Women’s Center, an
advanced surgery tower and four medical office
buildings. The hospital saw more than 400,000
medical services.
The hospital continues to expand and enhance
its services to keep up with the growing health
care needs of the community. Northside Hospital
Forsyth’s new Surgical Care Center opened in May
2016 with two dedicated, women-only GYN and
breast care operating rooms, offering patients
privacy and comfort. Construction is also well
underway on three additional floors to the hospital, stable surgical platform.
which will bring the hospital’s inpatient bed count
to 247 and the total number of beds, including
observation, to 330. These additional floors should
be operational in October 2016.
New advances in technology enable Northside
to lead medical innovation and focus on the
best possible patient care. Cancer patients have
access to leading-edge care with Gamma Knife®
Perfexion™ technology, available at Northside
Hospital Forsyth’s newly renovated and expanded
Cancer Center. The technology offers the latest
treatment for malignant and benign brain
tumors and functional and vascular disorders. For
patients with brain tumors, this means they can
undergo a non-invasive form of brain surgery
without surgical risks, a long hospital stay or
subsequent rehabilitation.
Northside also leads in surgical care,
performing more minimally invasive robotic-
assisted procedures than any other hospital in
the Southeast. Northside Hospital Forsyth was the
first hospital in Georgia to use the Medrobotics
Flex® Robotic System. It is the first and only
robot-assisted surgical platform with a flexible
scope cleared by the FDA for use during transoral
procedures (performed via mouth). The technology
employs a unique, flexible, robotic scope that
precisely moves through the throat’s natural twists
and turns. Once the surgeon reaches the desired
vantage point, the scope becomes rigid to form a
Northside Hospital Forsyth is committed to
balancing clinical excellence with high-quality,
compassionate care. The hospital was the first
in Metro Atlanta to earn Advanced Certification
in Heart Failure from The Joint Commission. It
also earned the American Heart Association/
American College of Cardiology Foundation’s Get
With The Guidelines® 2015 Heart Failure Gold-Plus
Quality Achievement Award for the diagnosis and
treatment of heart failure patients.
Northside Hospital Forsyth also has been
recognized by The Joint Commission for
health care excellence with specialty certification
in treating pneumonia, hip/knee replacement
and stroke patients, and the hospital’s Bariatric
Surgery Program received recognition from
the American College of Surgeons’ Metabolic
and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality
Improvement Program.
Follow Northside Hospital on social media, and
for more information visit www.northside.com.
> Northside Hospital Forsyth
1200 Northside Forsyth Drive
Cumming, GA 30041
770-844-3200
> Northside Hospital
1000 Johnson Ferry Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30342
404-851-8000
> N orthside Hospital Cherokee
201 Hospital Road
Canton, GA 30114
770-720-5100