5 Million awarded in Gwinnett Medical Center Drowning

A Gwinnett County jury has awarded $5 million in damages to the family of a new mother who drowned in a bathtub at Gwinnett Medical Center.

Jeff Harris, one of the family's attorneys, said Tuesday that nurses should have checked on Wendy Wyckstandt, 34, and concluded she was too weak to shower without assistance.

Cancer Drive kicked off in Lawrenceville

The Gwinnett County chapter of the American Cancer Society started its annual fund-raising drive Saturday at the Medieval Times theme restaurant at Discover Mills in Lawrenceville.

At least 1,000 people, including volunteers, health care workers and cancer survivors, attended the event. story here

Gwinnett Medical Center to Perform Open Heart Surgery

The showdown between Gwinnett Medical Center and Emory Eastside Medical Center to be the first county hospital to offer open-heart surgery services has been called off.

Officials at Emory Eastside, who recently sought public support for a bid to bring open-heart surgery to Snellville, announced Friday that they were no longer interested in competing for the project. Full story here.

Lawrenceville Needs Open Heart Surgery

"Gwinnett County is the most populated county in the nation without open heart surgery Gwinnett's 750,000+ residents account for nearly 10% of Georgia's population Gwinnett is second in population in Georgia only to Fulton county; but Fulton, DeKalb and Cobb all have open heart surgery These facts and others, the resolution says, make the lack of an open heart surgery program "a very significant health issue for the citizens of Gwinnett County today." read full story here