By Maggie Lee
Macon
ATLANTA — A corrections health care company has bought the shuttered Bostick State Prison in Hardwick for $50,000, while the team in charge of the moribund Central State Hospital campus starts work on a campaign to speed new landlords onto their 1,900 total acres.
CorrectHealth GDC, the sole bidder on Bostick, has received Department of Community Health approval to set up a $6.9 million, 280-bed skilled nursing facility at the site.
But it’s not clear if a secure nursing home is what CorrectHealth will do with the 700-bed prison near Milledgeville, shuttered since 2010.
The company did not return multiple calls for comment. Several separate CorrectHealth legal entities are all registered at the same north Atlanta office suite. They provide health care in 37 lockups across several states, including the Bibb County jail.
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