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Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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Augusta is a city of 205,000 people with over 20,000 healthcare professionals. Over $600 million worth of medical related construction going/or starting next year. Augusta is pulling the best and brightest away from bigger cities medical fields. People from New York are a prime example. After our St. Sebastian pkwy is completed in 2010. Were building a Saint Sebastian research park.
Georgia Trend
While addressing the state’s doctor shortage, MCG’s business incubator is also invigorating Augusta’s economy. “On the business front, the clinical center will actually be treating cancer patients right across the street from the cancer research building, so new technologies can come right out of the lab into the clinic,” Goolsby says.
“The Georgia Medical Center Authority, which has a second stage biotech incubator, is just two blocks away from our MCG incubator, which is a big draw for us trying to bring startups in.”In fact, the MCG Life Sciences Innovation Center recently lured Dr. Renato Rozenthal away from New York Medical College to start his research application,Cryo Bio USA, which specializes in finding alternative treatments for neurological disorders.
“They actually have $1 million in backing, which is unusual in this economy,” Goolsby says. Augusta’s low cost of living helped Rozenthal, who was visiting to collaborate with MCG researchers, decide to leave academia to become an entrepreneur. “He was thinking of doing it in New York, but saw our facility and our price and couldn’t believe it. I really feel like Augusta is poised to be Georgia’s biocenter for life science and business,” Goolsby says. “We really have a lot of the right ingredients to bring something fantastic out of it.”
Last edited by nortonguy; 01-02-2010 at 04:33 PM..
For a city of its size, Augusta does have a medical industry that a lot of people would die for. But come on. Saying that Augusta has the top medical district in the South is a bit of a stretch.
Precisely. If I were to suffer a serious burn, I'd want to be flown to Augusta, no question. But "medical center of the South"? It looks like somebody ran across a favorable ranking or two and extrapolated that way out of proportion. Even in within its tier, cities like Durham, Charleston, and Little Rock give Augusta a run for its money. But the answer to this question is undoubtedly Houston. The regional annual economic impact of the Texas Medical Center in Houston is $14 billion, which is almost as much as the entire GDP of metropolitan Augusta.
"The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research. Located in Houston, the center contains 47 medicine-related institutions, including 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices...The Texas Medical Center receives over five million annual patient visits, including over ten thousand international patients. In 2006, the center employed over 75,000 people, including 4,000 physicians and 11,000 registered nurses."
The Texas Medical Center probably has more high-rises than Augusta's MSA does, and perhaps even central GA, but i wouldnt know the amount of highrises scattered along the border, so i won't go that far.
Downtown Augusta
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Augsky2.JPG (broken link)
And more info of Augusta's Medical Economy
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In recent years, Augusta has become a center of medicine, biotechnology, and military. The Medical College of Georgia, the state's only public health sciences graduate university, employs over 7,000 people. Along with University Hospital, the Medical District of Augusta employs over 25,000 people and has an economic impact of over $1.8 billion.
Location: Augusta, GA ''The fastest rising city in the southeast''
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That's a old picture of Augusta's skyline. Plus what does high-rises have to do with anything. Houston metro is over 5 million people. Of course its going to have more high-rises. Augusta has two skylines downtown and the Medical District. With a metro of only 540k. There are several buildings 9-13 stories in the Medical District. Were comparing the quailty of the Medical communities.
That's a old picture of Augusta's skyline. Plus what does high-rises have to do with anything. Houston metro is over 5 million people. Of course its going to have more high-rises. Augusta has two skylines downtown and the Medical District. With a metro of only 540k. There are several buildings 9-13 stories in the Medical District. Were comparing the quailty of the Medical communities.
I really feel like Augusta is poised to be Georgia’s biocenter for life science and business,” Goolsby says. “We really have a lot of the right ingredients to bring something fantastic out of it.”[/b]
"poised to be" is different from "is."
"we have a lot of the right ingredients to bring something fantastic..." is different from "we are fantastic."
It sounds like great things are happening in Augusta, but it also sounds like they have a very long way to go to beat out cities such as Houston, Atlanta, even Birmingham for "THE MEDICAL CENTER" title.
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