Comprehensive Figures

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The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s annual operating expenses total $2.3 billion (economic impact of approximately $5.5 billion), and its patient care component, Emory Healthcare, provided $29.2 million in charity care in fiscal year 2008. Research funding for fiscal year 2008 was $387.5 million. Faculty: 2,487, plus 1,561 adjunct or volunteer faculty and collaborative scientists. Students and medical residents: 4,384, including 457 students in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and 545 postdoctoral fellows. Staff employees, including Emory Healthcare: 15,466. Total employees, including faculty: 17,953. Including joint ventures, the WHSC has 1,730 hospital beds, 65,664 annual hospital admissions, and 2.6 million annual outpatient/other patient services. Physicians in Emory Healthcare and affiliate hospitals are responsible for 4.7 million patient services a year.

Basic Data

Annual Budget:

$2.3 billion

Research funding (FY06):

$387.5 million

Endowment WHSC market value (As of August 31, 2008):

$2 billion

Total Emory University Endowment


   Market value (As of August 31, 2008):

$5.5 billion

Total faculty:

2,487

Institute of Medicine members:

20

Total employees:

17,953

Total students & residents in training:

4,384

Total gifts:

$109.3 million

Emory Healthcare total beds:

1,730

Total WHSC admissions:

65,664

Emory Healthcare total outpatient visits:

2.6 million

Total charity care provided:

$29.2 million

Estimated annual economic impact on Metro


   Atlanta:

$5.5 billion

Total Woodruff Health Sciences Center Buildings:

>100

Total Net Square Feet:

4.33 million

Faculty Data

Emory University School of Medicine


    Total faculty:

2,158

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing


    Total faculty:

57

Rollins School of Public Health


    Total faculty:

203

Student Data

Emory University School of Medicine


    Medical students:

498

        MD/PhD students:

72

        Residents:

1,100

    Allied Health students:

438

Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

    PhD students

457*

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing


    BSN students:

211

    MSN students:

154

    PhD students

14

Rollins School of Public Health


    MPH students:

757

    PhD students:

129

* 90% of students in the GDBBS train in labs in the medical school; the remainder train in Rollins School of Public Health, Emory College, or CDC

Research Awards

Total WHSC Research Awards:

$387.5 million

Emory University School of Medicine*:

$332.7 million

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing:

$3.5 million

Rollins School of Public Health:

$53.8 million

Yerkes National Primate Research Center:

$48.3 million

Executive Vice President for Health Affairs:

$437,560

* Includes $40.2 million from medical school faculty at Yerkes and $11 million from medical school faculty at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

Emory Healthcare Clinical Operations

Emory Hospitals

 

    Emory University Hospital

 

        Licensed beds:

579

        Admissions:

23,710

        Outpatient services:

77,896

        Employees:

3,616

    Emory University Hospital Midtown


        Licensed beds:

511

        Admissions:

22,577

        Outpatient services:

164,076

        Employees:

2,856

    Wesley Woods Center


        Licensed beds:

100

        Admissions:

2,234

        Outpatient services:

12,232

        Employees (Wesley Woods Center)

654

        Employees (Wesley Woods

         Senior Living residential

         retirement facilities)

281

    Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine

    Hospital

 

        Licensed beds:

120

        Staff employees:

218



Joint Venture Hospitals

 

    Emory-Adventist Hospital

 

        Acute care beds:

88

        Admissions:

1,859

        Outpatient services:

53,598

        Employees:

450

    EHCA, LLC

 

        Emory Eastside Medical Center

 

                Licensed beds:

222

                Admissions:

11,372

                Outpatient services:

128,333

                Employees:

1,400

        Emory Johns Creek Hospital

 

                Licensed beds

110

                Admissions:

3,912

                Outpatient services:

31,761

                Employees

508



The Emory Clinic

 

    Patient services:

1,972,464

    Employees:

2,498



Emory-Children's Center

 

    Patient services:

196,447

    Employees:

119

Notable Rankings:

National specialty rankings by U.S. News & World Report for 2008 for Emory University Hospital:

  • Geriatrics, 11th
  • Ophthalmology, 9th
  • Psychiatry, 11th
  • Heart and Heart Surgery, 13th
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery, 13th
  • Ear, Nose, and Throat, 19th
  • Kidney Disease, 20th
  • Cancer, 47th

Other national rankings by U.S. News & World Report, for 2009:

  • Emory University School of Medicine, 22nd for research
  • Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (joint department between Emory School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology), 2nd
  • Physician Assistant Master's Program, 3rd
  • Physical Therapy Doctoral Program, 11th
  • Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, 26th
  • Nurse and Midwifery graduate program, 8th
  • Rollins School of Public Health, 7th

Emory University School of Medicine ranked 18th in the nation for NIH awards in 2008 (most recent data available).

From fiscal year 2008 (September 1, 2007-August 31, 2008)