Emory Healthcare
John Fox, President and CEO
Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Chairman, EHC Board
Emory Healthcare, the largest, most comprehensive health system in Georgia, includes The Emory Clinic, Emory-Children's Center, Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Wesley Woods Center, Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital, the jointly owned Emory-Adventist Hospital, and EHCA, a limited liability company created with Hospital Corporation of America. EHCA includes two joint venture hospitals, Emory Eastside Medical Center and Emory Johns Creek Hospital.
Emory Healthcare has $1.6 billion in net revenue and provides $29.2 million in charity care annually. It has 10,764 employees and 1,310 hospital beds (1,730 beds counting joint ventures).
Emory Specialty Associates, a component of Emory Healthcare, is an outreach physician group practice organization that includes divisions of primary care, cardiology, anesthesiology, pathology, and emergency medicine as well as Emory Clark-Holder Clinic, a mutispecialty group serving LaGrange, Ga.
In conjunction with Air Methods Corporation, Emory provides medical oversight for four Emory Flight helicopters from centers in Atlanta, Griffin, Jefferson, and Cartersville that cover Georgia and surrounding states. The helicopters are on 24-hour standby to lift critically ill patients to the closest appropriate hospital.
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The Emory Clinic
Emory-Children's Center
Emory University Hospital
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Wesley Woods Center
Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital
Emory-Adventist Hospital
EHCA, LLC
Emory Eastside Medical Center
Emory Johns Creek Hospital
Emory Healthcare Components
The Emory Clinic (founded 1953)
Wright Caughman, MD, Director
Donald Brunn, COO
The largest, most comprehensive group practice in Georgia, The Emory Clinic has 1,400 physicians, nurse clinicians, and physician assistants. Employees: 2,498. Patient services in 2008: 1,972,464. Facilities: 77. Clinic facilities on the Emory University campus include multispecialty and primary care sites, Emory Winship Cancer Institute, and geriatric outpatient care at Wesley Woods. Clinic physicians practice at numerous sites throughout metro Atlanta (see map on pages 8-9): Emory Midtown (12 specialties), Executive Park (orthopaedics), Decatur, DeKalb Medical Center, Dunwoody, Emory Eastside, Emory Johns Creek, Flat Shoals Parkway, Hillandale, Perimeter, Rockdale, Smyrna, Sugarloaf, and WellStar Kennestone. In addition to those in metro Atlanta, the clinic has heart and vascular sites throughout the state. The clinic also manages Emory Specialty Associates, an outreach physician group practice organization that includes Emory Clark-Holder Clinic, serving LaGrange, Ga.
Emory-Children's Center (founded 1997)
Barbara Stoll, MD, CEO
The largest pediatric multispecialty group practice in Georgia, the Emory-Children's Center (ECC) is a joint venture between Emory and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. It comprises 237 Emory physician faculty involved in pediatric clinical services, teaching, research, and child advocacy. In addition to Children's Healthcare (at Egleston, Scottish Rite, and Hughes Spalding hospitals), ECC provides specialty pediatric care at Emory University Hospital Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital, and pediatric clinics on Emory's campus. Patient services in 2008: 100,769 (inpatient), and 95,678 (outpatient). Staff employees: 119.
Emory University Hospital (founded 1905)
Robert Bachman, COO
A 579-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University Hospital is staffed by 1,093 Emory 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 2008: 23,710 admissions and 77,896 outpatient services. Employees: 3,616. 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 16 specialties ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2008. For the 11th year in a row, members of the Atlanta community named the hospital as the Consumer's Choice Award winner.
Emory University Hospital Midtown (founded 1908)
Dane Peterson, COO
Emory University Hospital Midtown, formerly known as Emory Crawford Long Hospital, is a 511-bed tertiary care facility staffed by 947 Emory medical faculty and 537 community physicians. Medical services include 56 intensive care beds, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, and four hyperbaric oxygen units. Patients in 2008: 22,577 admissions and 164,076 outpatient services. Employees: 2,856. The hospital's case-mix index (a measure of complexity of illness treated) is higher than that of most community hospitals. It is well known for services in cardiology, cardiac surgery, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, cancer, 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 (founded 1954)
Albert Blackwelder, COO
This geriatric center includes Wesley Woods Hospital (founded 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.
Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital (founded 2007)
Robert Bachman, COO
An extension of Emory University Hospital’s acute care services, the recently opened Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital is located 6 miles east of the university campus. The facility has 120 licensed beds and six operating rooms. It provides medical and surgical care for orthopaedic and spine patients as well as general acute care for patients with nonsurgical needs. Staff employees: 218.
Emory-Adventist Hospital (founded 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, Ga., this hospital has 88 acute care beds and is staffed by more than175 physicians. Patients in 2008: 1,859 admissions and 53,598 outpatient services. Employees: 450.
EHCA, LLC (founded 1999)
John Fox, Chairman of the Board
EHCA is a limited liability company overseen by a board jointly governed by Emory Healthcare and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Through this and another parent company, EHCA Johns Creek Holdings, Emory is responsible for clinical performance and HCA manages day-to-day operations in the following two local facilities:
Emory Eastside Medical Center (founded 1980)
Kim Ryan, CEO (parent company EHCA)
Located in Snellville, Ga., Emory Eastside Medical Center is a 222-bed acute care hospital with 450 Emory and community physicians. The hospital has a 13-bed labor and delivery unit, a 22-bed postpartum unit, and an 18-bed neonatal intensive care unit and nursery. Services also include specialty care for cardiology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and oncology in addition to other specialties. Patients in 2008: 11,372 admissions and 128,333 outpatient services. Employees: 1,400.
Emory Johns Creek Hospital (founded 2007)
John Quinlivan, CEO (parent company EHCA Johns Creek Holdings)
Located in the north metro area, Emory Johns Creek Hospital is a 110-bed facility staffed by 624 Emory and community physicians. Services include emergency care, digital imaging, a birth center with level III neonatal intensive care, a bariatric center, intensive care, advanced cardiac care, and women's services. Patients in 2008: 3,912 admissions and 31,761 outpatient services. Employees: 508.
