Two years ago,

the medical office building was 1/3 empty. Today it has a waiting list

of doctors wanting to locate their offices in the Medical Arts Building.

Tenet's Annual

Physician Satisfaction Survey indicated an increase in satisfaction from

72.6 percent in 2001 to 82.3 percent in 2003. This 13.4 percent increase

is the highest in the Southeast region and one of the largest in Tenet.

Tenet is committed

to continued capital investment in South Fulton Medical Center. Every

floor of the hospital has been renovated since Tenet became affiliated

with South Fulton in 2001.

South Fulton

will be breaking ground on a new $8.5 million Emergency Department this

summer. Renovation of Four North to a 40-bed long-term acute care facility

has begun. The hospital has just installed a new state-of-the-art, all-digital,

Cardiac Catheterization Lab and upgraded the MRI with cutting edge computer

technology.

South Fulton

Medical Center remains devoted to providing the highest quality of service

to its community. Our nurses made a transition to all-white uniforms making

a positive impact on patient care and are the only nurses in metro Atlanta

to have done so. The nurses carry wireless phones with them at all time

so that patients can contact them directly whenever they need to. Customer

service representatives and administrators visit patients daily to make

their stay as comfortable as possible.

South Fulton

Medical Center is East Point's largest corporate citizen, economic generator

and employer. SFMC was awarded "The East Point Business Association

Hall of Fame Award" for its commitment to economic growth in the

City of East Point during the city's annual business awards luncheon last

year. South Fulton has expanded its charity care and is extending its

hours at the Willie J. Freeman Clinic in College Park that includes family

practice and obstetrics/gynecological services.

The 356-bed

acute care hospital located on Cleveland Avenue, serves more than 50,000

outpatients, 8,500 inpatients, and 40,000 emergency patients each year.

In addition, SFMC is the hospital of record for Hartsfield International

Airport.

South Fulton

Medical Center, a 392-bed acute care hospital has been affiliated with

the Tenet Healthcare Corporation since April 2001, when it joined four

other hospitals that comprise Tenet's greater Atlanta network. In addition

to emergency care, the hospital offers cardiac care, including a stroke

unit and cardi0-vascular center, joint replacement services, physical

and occupational rehabilitation, inpatient oncology, ambulatory surgery

and labor and delivery. The hospital also has a level II neonatal intensive

care unit.

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