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Sick in a Hospital Town: As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined

Tucker said she had no idea what was going on. The authority was independent of the hospital, or at least that’s what she’d been led to believe. Phoebe’s lawyer should not be acting on the authority’s behalf, she said. She called Glenn Singfield, the authority’s chair. According to Tucker, he told her he believed the members of the authority supported the hospital and had taken it upon himself to sign on to the appeal, at Phoebe’s request. She told him his actions “bordered on unethical behavior” and could be seen as a “violation of public trust.”

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