Emory Healthcare Components

The Emory Clinic (1953)
Wright Caughman, MD, Director
Don Brunn, COO

The primary port of access to adult patient care in Emory Healthcare and the largest, most comprehensive group practice in Georgia, The Emory Clinic has 900 Emory faculty physicians. Employees: 2,239. Patient visits in 2006: 1,981,013. Clinic facilities on campus include its main multispecialty headquarters; the 1525 Building, which houses primary care as well as Emory's programs in preventive medicine and wellness; and the Winship Cancer Institute. Clinic physicians also practice in a number of health care centers throughout the metro Atlanta area: Decatur, Dunwoody, Emory Crawford Long, Emory Medical Affiliates at Sugarloaf, Emory Medical Genetics, Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center, Perimeter, Smyrna, South DeKalb, and Wesley Woods.

Emory Children's Center (1997)
Barbara J. Stoll, MD, CEO

The largest pediatric multispecialty group practice in Georgia, the Emory Children's Center (ECC) comprises 105 Emory physician faculty involved in pediatric clinical services, teaching, research, and child advocacy. ECC provides specialty pediatric care at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, and other area hospitals as well as specialty and general care at Children's Healthcare at Hughes Spalding. ECC provides extensive outpatient care to subspecialty patients at pediatric clinics on Emory's campus and on Johnson Ferry Road. Patient visits in 2006: 94,416. Staff employees: 116. As of Sept. 1, 2006, ECC entered into a joint venture with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to create a joint faculty physician practice plan.

Emory Hospitals

Emory University Hospital (1905)
Robert J. Bachman, COO

A 573-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University Hospital is staffed exclusively by 954 Emory University School of Medicine faculty. It includes a 20-bed psychiatric facility, a 56-bed rehabilitation center, and a nine-bed clinical research center supported by the NIH. Patients in 2006: 23,183 admissions and 86,387 outpatient visits. Employees: 3,443. The hospital is long known for cardiology, cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology, and neurology/neurosurgery and is one of the region's most comprehensive multiple organ and tissue transplant centers. It was named in eight of 17 specialties ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the 2006 publication of America's Best Hospitals, and its cardiology and psychiatry programs both ranked 15th. For the ninth year in a row, members of the Atlanta community named Emory University Hospital as the Consumer's Choice Award winner.

Emory Crawford Long Hospital (1908)
Albert K. Blackwelder, COO

A 511-bed community-based, tertiary care center in midtown Atlanta, Emory Crawford Long is staffed by 600 Emory medical faculty and 800 community physicians. Medical services include 56 intensive care beds, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, and four hyperbaric oxygen units. Patients in 2006: 23,205 admissions and 143,961 outpatient visits. Employees: 2,596. Emory Crawford Long Hospital's case-mix index (a measure of the complexity of illnesses treated) is higher than that of most community hospitals. The hospital is well known for services in cardiology, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, and emergency medicine. Women's services include prenatal and postnatal education, bone density testing, mammography, and obstetrics, with a specialization in high-risk pregnancy.

Wesley Woods Center (1954)
Albert K. Blackwelder, Acting COO

This geriatric center includes Wesley Woods Hospital (1987), a 100-bed geriatric specialty facility. Founded by the United Methodist Church and Emory University, Wesley Woods Center serves more than 30,000 older adults and chronically ill individuals each year. In addition to the hospital and a 25-bed inpatient hospice service, Wesley Woods has an outpatient primary care clinic, a 250-bed skilled nursing care facility (Budd Terrace), and a 201-unit residential retirement facility (Wesley Towers), with one floor of 18 units dedicated to personal care. Patients in 2006: 2,279 admissions and 34,066 outpatient visits. Employees: 662 (hospital) and 266 (nursing care facility). Wesley Woods is well known for its inpatient, outpatient, and day hospitalization programs in depression, sleep disorders, rehabilitation, and Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease. The center also provides personal care management and medical assessment services for older patients and their families.

Emory-Adventist Hospital (1974)
Dennis Kiley, President

As part of its commitment to community care, Emory jointly owns Emory-Adventist Hospital with Adventist Health System. Located in Smyrna in rapidly growing Cobb County, this hospital has 88 acute care beds and is staffed by more than 175 physicians, including those from The Emory Clinic, who provide both primary care and specialized services. Patients in 2006: 2,071 admissions and 57,054 outpatient visits. Employees: 450.

EHCA, LLC (1999)
Lawrence H. Kloess III, FACHE, Chairman of the Board
Thomas Gilbert, President and CEO

EHCA is a limited liability company overseen by a board jointly governed by Emory Healthcare and Hospital Corporation of America. Through this LLC, Emory is responsible for clinical performance improvement and quality assurance in two local hospitals. HCA is responsible for management of day-to-day operations of the facilities. EHCA broadens the community's access to care under the Emory umbrella to 1,582 patient beds. Statistics for EHCA hospitals include the following: EHCA, continued Patient beds: 310. Patients in 2006: 3,014 admissions and 19,572 outpatient visits. Employees: 1,750. EHCA hospitals include Emory Eastside Medical Center (200 beds) and the new Emory Johns Creek Hospital (110 beds).