Who is the Medical Center of the South? I think Augusta (best, state)

[nortonguy]

What cities in the south can compete against Augusta. When you compare the Medical Centers or Medical Districts?

Houston maybe?

[waronxmas]

Augusta the "Medical Center of the South"?

It't not even the medical center of Georgia.

In the south it would be Houston (TMC), followed by Atlanta (CDC and Emory) and then everyone else.

[nature's message]

Houston has the one of the largest and one of the most advanced medical industries in the world.

[rkmoses]

houston has the largest medical center in the us.....one of the largest in the world

[nortonguy]

Oh yes continue to sleep on Augusta. Those are larger cities but that doesn't mean anything. Augusta is a fast rising metro of 545k.

MCG has a billion dollar annual impact on the area. Double that if you count MCG Health Inc.’s clinical facilities. Augusta offers several other big hospitals too. Doctors Hospital invested $40 million to expand the Joseph M. Still Burn Center, the largest burn center in the United States and the third largest in the world.

1. Princeton University, N.J.
2. University of California, San Francisco
3. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.
4. University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
5. Emory University, Atlanta
6. J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco
7. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
8. Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
9. The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Okla.
10. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
11. Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, N.Y.
12. University of Pittsburgh
13. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
14. Medical College of Georgia, Augusta
15. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

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[nortonguy]

Augusta is on the GA/SC border. But even people from Jackson, MS are sent to Augusta hospitals.

Mississippi burn victim sent to Augusta 122109 - The Augusta Chronicle


How many miles away do Houston and Atlanta attract.

[Rachael84]

Augusta??? I've never even heard them mentioned anytime, anywhere, lol. I hear more about Houston. I have to give it to Houston, as painful as that may be

[Guardian of The Gulf]

Lol, I have no doubts that it is Houston, Orlando/Central Florida probably plays a larger role in the medical field than Augusta as well.

[SouthmoreAve]

Originally Posted by nortonguy

Augusta is on the GA/SC border. But even people from Jackson, MS are sent to Augusta hospitals.

Mississippi burn victim sent to Augusta 122109 - The Augusta Chronicle

How many miles away do Houston and Atlanta attract.

LOL. ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?!?

OK sorry for that. But Houston's TMC attracts tens of thousands of INTERNATIONAL visitors. Now, i dont know how that will translate to miles, though. So you can only imagine the places where domestic patients from across the US have traveled from just to get to the TMC. Though, there are some better hospitals everywhere in the US, so dont go to hospital rankings and expect to see a bunch of Houston hospitals save a couple. (looking at you Rachael)

[nature's message]

Originally Posted by nortonguy

Oh yes continue to sleep on Augusta. Those are larger cities but that doesn't mean anything. Augusta is a fast rising metro of 545k.

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.