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Comprehensive Figures

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The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s annual operating expenditures total $2.5 billion (economic impact of approximately $5.7 billion), and its patient care component, Emory Healthcare, provided $48.9 million in charity care in fiscal year 2009. Research funding for FY 2009 was $446.5 million. Faculty: 2,511, plus 1,557 adjunct faculty and collaborative scientists. Students and medical residents: 4,709, including 446 students in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and 728 postdoctoral fellows. Staff employees, including Emory Healthcare: 15,167. Total employees, including faculty: 17,678. Including joint ventures, the WHSC has 1,739 hospital beds, 51,708 annual hospital admissions, 581 nursing home admissions, and 2.6 million annual outpatient/other patient services. Physicians in Emory Healthcare and affiliate hospitals are responsible for 4.4 million patient services a year.

Basic Data

Annual operating expenses:

$2.5 billion

Research funding:

$446.5 million

Endowment WHSC market value (As of August 31, 2009):

$1.7 billion

Total Emory University Endowment

   Market value (As of August 31, 2009):

$4.3 billion

Total faculty:

2,511

Institute of Medicine members:

24

Total employees:

17,678

Total students & residents in training:

4,709

Total gifts:

$107.6 million

Emory Healthcare total beds:

1,739

Total annual hospital admissions:

51,708

Emory Healthcare total outpatient services:

2.6 million

Total charity care provided in fiscal year 2009:

$48.9 million

Estimated annual economic impact on Metro

   Atlanta:

$5.7 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:

517

        MD/PhD students:

73

        Residents:

1,117

    Allied Health students:

438

Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

    PhD students

446*

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

    BSN students:

210

    MSN students:

163

    PhD students

16

Rollins School of Public Health

    MPH students:

866

    PhD students:

104

* 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

$446.5 million

Emory University School of Medicine*:

$383.5 million

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing:

$2.4 million

Rollins School of Public Health:

$60 million

Yerkes National Primate Research Center:

$57 million

Executive Vice President for Health Affairs:

$5.4 million

* Includes funds received by medical school faculty at Yerkes, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Winship Cancer Institute, and Emory's Center for Comprehensive Informatics.

Emory Healthcare Clinical Operations

Emory Hospitals

  

    Emory University Hospital

  

        Licensed beds:

579

        Admissions:

23,419

        Outpatient services:

90,009

        Employees:

3,812

    Emory University Hospital Midtown

        Licensed beds:

511

        Admissions:

22,666

        Outpatient services:

166,996

        Employees:

2,779

    Wesley Woods Center

        Licensed beds:

100

        Admissions:

2,123 (hospital)
581 (nursing home)

        Outpatient services:

12,221

        Employees (Wesley Woods Center)

640

        Employees (Wesley Woods

         Senior Living residential

         retirement facilities)

277

    Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine

    Hospital

        Licensed beds:

120

        Staff employees:

203


Joint Venture Hospitals

  

    Emory-Adventist Hospital

  

        Acute care beds:

88

        Admissions:

2,065

        Outpatient services:

46,224

        Employees:

450

    EHCA, LLC

  

        Emory Eastside Medical Center

  

                Licensed beds:

231

                Admissions:

12,019

                Outpatient services:

71,249

                Employees:

1,400

        Emory Johns Creek Hospital

  

                Licensed beds

110

                Admissions:

4,436

                Outpatient services:

45,092

                Employees

545


The Emory Clinic

  

    Patient services:

2,074,095

    Employees:

2,336


Emory-Children's Center

  

    Patient services:

229,829

    Employees:

120

Notable Rankings:

National specialty rankings by U.S. News & World Report for 2009 for Emory University Hospital:

  • Ophthalmology, 9
  • Psychiatry, 10
  • Geriatrics, 13
  • Heart and Heart Surgery, 13
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery, 14
  • Ear, Nose, and Throat, 22
  • Kidney Disease, 25
  • Diabetes/Endocrinology, 31
  • Gynecology, 44
  • Urology, 44
  • Cancer, 46

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

  • Emory University School of Medicine, 22 for research, 42 for primary care
  • Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (joint department between Emory School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology), 2
  • Physician Assistant Master's Program, 3 (ranked most recently in 2007)
  • Physical Therapy Doctoral Program, 11 (ranked most recently in 2008)
  • Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, 26 (ranked most recently in 2007)
  • Nurse and Midwifery graduate program, 8 (ranked most recently in 2007)
  • Rollins School of Public Health, 7 (ranked most recently in 2007)

Emory University School of Medicine ranked 15th in the nation for NIH awards in 2009.

From fiscal year 2009 (September 1, 2008-August 31, 2009)


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