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The
Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University includes:
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•Emory
University School of Medicine
•Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
•Rollins School of Public Health
•Yerkes National Primate Research Center
•Emory Healthcare, the
largest most comprehensive health care system in Georgia, which
itself includes the following;
The
Emory Clinic
Emory
Children's Center
Emory
University Hospital
Emory
Crawford Long
Hospital
Wesley
Woods Center of
Emory University
Emory-Adventist
Hospital,
jointly
owned
EHCA,
LLA, created in
collaboration with the
Hospital
Corporation of America
Emory Healthcare also has a community-based
health care affiliate network comprising 45 hospitals representing
65 communities and more than 6,000 physicians throughout Georgia,
Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina, with whom Emory shares
its resources as an academic medical center and enhances the provision
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We
like to say that our “reason for being,” or core purpose,
in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center is to serve humanity by making
people healthy. This encompasses the work we do in all our capacities,
whether at the patient bedside, in the classroom, or in the lab; whether
in the local community or in settings far away; whether for hurricane
relief or for routine heroism that happens every day. In fulfilling
our core purpose, our most important obligation is simply to understand
and do what most needs to be done—to make people healthy.
This book is meant to give our friends,
even our own Emory family, a glimpse at some of the ways in which
the Woodruff Health Sciences Center does this through service to the
community, both for our nearest neighbors and for those on the opposite
side of an ever-shrinking world.
Our highest priorities in such service
are to maintain critically needed health programs that otherwise would
not exist, to provide health care for those who otherwise would go
without, and to make Atlanta and the world a healthier place. These
are not easy goals, and they come at a cost to both the institution
and the individuals who work to make them happen.
This book is also a way to express our
own gratitude for the chance to serve, whether through clinicians
in Emory Healthcare who provide tens of millions of dollars’
worth of charity care every year, through nursing students who run
clinics for migrant farm workers, or through faculty in public health
who work to solve malnutrition problems in children in Central America.
We are pleased to share with you some
of the ways we work in the community as well as ways in which this
“bread on the water” returns to us manifold, and we invite
you to join us in this reaching out.
Sincerely, |
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Michael
M.E. Johns, MD
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare |
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