Last week, officials with AtriumHealth Floyd said that the local emergency department is exceeding expectations.  The stand alone emergency department was the first of its kind in Georgia, although Atrium operates similar departments in North Carolina.  Chattooga County’s rural location and the distance that some residents must travel for emergency care prompted the building of the stand alone emergency facility.  AtriumHealth had estimated that the 24-hour facility would see around 35 people per day.  That number has proved to be low, with the emergency department averaging 55 patients each day.  Last week, the facility passed the 5,000 mark in the number of people it has served since it opened in October of last year.  Plans are to add a mobile mammography unit that will be based at the facility.  AtriumHealth believes that will help with breast cancer detection in rural Northwest Georgia.