Wesley Woods Center
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 elderly and chronically ill patients 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 Woods Towers), with one floor of 18 units dedicated to personal care. Patients in 2008: 2,234 admissions and 12,232 outpatient services. Employees: 654 (Wesley Woods Center) and 281 (Wesley Woods Senior Living residential retirement facilities, for which Emory Healthcare has management responsibilities). Wesley Woods is well known for its programs in depression, sleep disorders, rehabilitation, and Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease.
