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Hospital's Woody Stewart unit keeps hearts beating strong
Medical Center cardiac wing stays busy with patient load, technology
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Cardiac patients at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center are instructed on diet restrictions before they leave the hospital. The new Woody Stewart Heart Failure Treatment Unit features a state of the art demonstration kitchen and high tech video system to improve patient access to the education from their rooms or via smartphone. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Since its opening this fall, Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville’s advanced inpatient heart failure treatment unit has seen no shortage of patients — and that might be just a sign of the times. “More people come to the hospital with heart failure than anything else,” said Pam Williams, a registered nurse in the unit. “That’s true nationwide and here as well.”