A 579-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University Hospital is staffed exclusively by 960 Emory University School of Medicine faculty. It includes a 20-bed psychiatric facility, 102 ICU beds, a 56-bed rehab center, and a nine-bed clinical research center supported by the NIH. Patients in 2007: 23,494 admissions and 81,919 outpatient visits. Employees: 3,568.

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 2007 publication of America’s Best Hospitals. For the 10th year in a row, members of the Atlanta community named Emory University Hospital as the Consumer’s Choice Award winner.