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MCGHealth is a world-class healthcare network, offering the most comprehensive primary, specialty and sub-specialty care in the region. MCGHealth provides skilled, compassionate care to its patients, conducts leading-edge clinical research, and fosters the medical education and training of tomorrow>s healthcare practitioners. Our facilities include the 478-bed MCGHealth Medical Center, the MCGHealth Medical Office Building with more than 80 outpatient practice sites in one convenient setting, the Specialized Care Center housing a 13-county regional trauma center and the 154-bed MCGHealth Children>s Medical Center. The health system also includes a variety of dedicated centers and units, such as the MCGHealth Sports Medicine Center. In addition to providing care in the Augusta area to patients from Georgia, the Southeast and beyond, MCGHealth physicians travel to more than 90 satellite practice sites, illustrating our commitment to care for people across the state and region. MCGHealth is part of a thriving academic medical center that also includes the following entities: MCG Health, Inc. (doing business as MCGHealth) – a not-for-profit corporation that manages the clinical operations of the MCGHealth Medical Center, the MCGHealth Children's Medical Center and associated health system facilities. Medical College of Georgia – the health sciences university of the state of Georgia, composed of the schools of Allied Health, Dentistry, Graduate Studies, Medicine and Nursing. Faculty group practice plans, including the Physicians Practice Group, the Dental Practice Group, the Allied Health Practice Group and the School of Nursing Faculty Practice Group. Being an academic medical center, MCGHealth differs from community hospitals. We have three primary missions -- patient care, education and research. As an academic medical center, we must provide a full range of clinical services and maintain the infrastructure to foster education and research. Our physicians have the most up-to-date knowledge and training. Many of our health care professionals train the next generation of caregivers, while others conduct pioneering research that improves medical diagnosis, treatments and technology, bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.