FILE - Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center in Cuthbert, Ga., shown here on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, closed in 2020. The Georgia state Senate passed a bill on March 14, 2024, that would let the hospital reopen without a state permit, called a certificate of need. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)
FILE- A man passes Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, before the hospital closed in 2022. The Georgia state Senate passed a bill on March 14, 2024, that would let the historically Black Morehouse School of Medicine open a replacement hospital without a state permit, called a certificate of need. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)