“This place needs to be shut down and held accountable,” she said. A Piedmont Rockdale spokesperson told Jones in the days ...

Piedmont draws from an eight-county area; the majority of the students coming from Jasper, Butts and Newton County. Other counties include Henry, Jones, Morgan, Rockdale and Wilkinson.

Piedmont Heart Institute recognized its annual Physician of the Year Award recipients, Hameed Aziz, M.D., Michael Johnson, M.D., and Swamy Murthy, M.D., for their efforts to deliver high-quality, ...