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HEALTH P AULDING HEALTH
What Do You Love About

Paulding County is ranked WELLSTAR PAULDING WellStar’s investment in the health The facility offers a maternity center County?
B Y : BONNIE HUNTER the ninth healthiest county in HOSPITAL and future of Paulding County is apparent with spacious labor and delivery suites, &
in the hospital’s design, which includes a leading-edge diagnostic imaging services,
WellStar Paulding Hospital (WPH)
the state by the Robert Wood
opened a new, seven floor, 295,000-square whole-house stand-by power system and and a host of outpatient care options.
& & County Health Rankings and provides comprehensive, world-class reduce the opportunity for transmission art surgical care center and expanded WELLNESS
Johnson Foundation’s annual
high-intensity ultraviolet irradiation to
Tanner opened a new state-of-the-
foot facility in Hiram in 2014 that
of infection. WPH is heated and cooled
emergency department in fall 2018,
healthcare to Paulding County. WPH
Roadmaps. Much of this is due
with a geothermal heat pump system that
offering a single trusted destination for
offers state-of-the-art imaging, linear
to the active lifestyle facilitated
uses the earth as a thermal battery and
care. The hospital campus also offers
accelerator radiation therapy, as well as
sleep, stress, and cardiac catheterization
by such recreational attractions
medical specialists from Tanner Health
labs. The 112-bed hospital was built on generates zero emissions. access to a host of primary care and
as the Silver Comet Trail and 33 acres of land with 57 additional acres TANNER MEDICAL System’s medical staff. The hospital is BRENDA PARIS THORNTON
the Paulding Forest WMA, but for expansion. Located at the corner CENTER/VILLA RICA accredited as a chest pain center and a Serves on five local boards and volunteers at
of Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway and Bill Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica is primary stroke center, making lifesaving WellStar Hospital
Paulding County also has all
Carruth Parkway, WPH is accessible and a 40-bed acute care hospital that brings care available down the street, not down Paulding Resident since 1970
the modern medical facilities – has room to grow. world-class healthcare close to home. the interstate.
including two stellar hospital People that live here, love here.
I love it here. Wouldn’t think of living
systems – to ensure residents can (bottom) Paulding County ranks as the ninth healthiest “
stay healthy at any age. county in the entire state. Access to the Silver Comet Trail anywhere else.
contributes to the county's wellness. ”
(left) WellStar opened a state-of-the-art
replacement hospital in Hiram in 2014, featuring
112 private rooms, 40 emergency and pediatric
rooms, seven surgical suites and much more.

(left) The lobby of
WellStar Paulding
Hospital is a WELLNESS
welcoming entrance
to this facility, built to
be the safest hospital
in the world.

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