Clearview Regional Medical Center: Clearview Regional becomes Piedmont Walton Hospital

Piedmont Healthcare on April 2 officially welcomed an eleventh hospital into its health system, Clearview Regional Medical Center. The 77-bed hospital in Monroe, Ga., now will be called Piedmont Walton Hospital. Larry Ebert recently was appointed CEO. Piedmont bought the hospital from Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health Corp. (NYSE: QHC), according to Becker's Hospital Review. Quorum last year divested itself of another Georgia hospital, Trinity Hospital of Augusta, by selling it to the Richmond...