CommonSpirit opens Georgia hospital to prevent care from flowing to Tennessee CommonSpirit on Jan. 11 opened a hospital in Ringgold, Ga., as part of a strategic push to keep more patients in North Georgia and prevent them from seeking care across the state line in Tennessee.

The Fort Oglethorpe site had been leased from Catoosa County for the past eight years while #CommonSpirit planned and built the new #hospital. #HospitalCompetition #MarketBasedHealthcare #NotNecessarilyBad