1854
Atlanta Medical School, precursor to Emory's medical school, is chartered by the city. The school is the oldest and largest of the entrepreneurial medical schools in the city.
1905
Administrators of Wesley Memorial Hospital, Emory University Hospital's predecessor, open a training school for nurses to provide health care for the hospital's patients. In 1922, the hospital and its school of nursing move to Emory's new campus. The school of nursing later became a school within Emory University in 1944 and was renamed Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in 1967.
1915
Atlanta Medical School joins Emory College, which was expanding to Atlanta from Oxford, Ga., and becomes Emory University School of Medicine.
1922
With funding from Asa Candler, the founder of The Coca-Cola Company, Wesley Memorial Hospital is moved to Emory's campus to improve teaching and patient care programs (now Emory University Hospital). Wesley Hospital was founded in 1904.
1929
Emory formalizes a teaching program for resident physicians and begins operation of the medical programs at Grady Hospital, a large inner-city hospital for indigent and emergency patients that is managed by the Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority (now Grady Memorial Hospital). The hospital was constructed in 1892.
1944
Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital becomes part of the university (now Emory Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University). Crawford Long was founded in 1908 as the Davis-Fischer Sanitorium.
1946
Emory aligns with the local Veterans Administration hospital and takes on supervision of Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital. Later, the medical school's dean advocates for a new facility, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which opens in 1967.
1953
The Emory Clinic, the private practice of its clinical faculty, is established.
1956
Emory purchases a primate research facility in Orange Park, Florida (now known as Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center). Yerkes moves to Emory's campus in 1965.
1966
The Woodruff Medical Center (now Health Sciences Center) is established to bring together those components of Emory involved in patient care, teaching of health professionals, and health-related research.
1987
The Emory/Gerogia Tech Biomedical Research Consortium is established.
1987
Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital is opened.
1990
Named for donor O. Wayne Rollins, the Rollins Research Center is completed, adding 75 labs to Emory's research facilities.
1990
Rollins School of Public Health is established.
1991
Emory University System of Health Care established. The system was incorporated in 1994 and renamed as Emory Healthcare in 1995.
1998
Wesley Woods Center is incorporated into Emory Healthcare.
1999
Emory establishes EHCA LLC, a limited liability company overseen by a board jointly governed by Emory Healtcare and Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation.
Emory School of Medicine:
http://whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/em/2004_150yrs/if_these_walls.html
The Emory Clinic:
http://whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/momentum/2003spring/med.htm
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