Atlanta’s mysterious new hospital

Atlanta City Councilmembers were surprised last week when they came across a line item on a budget proposal dubbed ‘Project Robin’ with a price tag of $800 million.  Categorized as a ‘health venture,’ it became known that the mystery project is a proposed hospital, meant to be funded by a tax allocation district extension and needed to fill the gaps in healthcare left by the closure of the Atlanta Medical Center.  Major questions remain – where will the hospital be built?  Can enough funding be secured?  But with Grady and Piedmont’s ERs at “dangerously overcrowded” levels, bringing a new hospital to Atlanta would have the city’s healthcare system RISING…