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Buyer saves Millen hospital from closing
South Florida-based GA Medical Holdings purchases facility
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Set to close in June, Optim Medical Center-Jenkins announced Monday that it had been sold to GA Medical Holdings Corp. The 25-bed “critical access” facility in Millen in Jenkins County announced back in April that it would merge operations with another hospital in the area. It would have been the seventh rural hospital in Georgia to shut down since the beginning of 2013.
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