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 Emory University Hospital (EUH), EUH Midtown, Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital, The Emory Clinic, Emory-Children¿s Center, Wesley Woods Center, 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 $1.7 billion in net revenue and provides $48.9 million in charity care annually. It has 10,294 employees and 1,310 hospital beds (1,739 beds counting joint ventures). Annual hospital admissions total 51,708, and annual outpatient services, 2.6 million.
Emory Specialty Associates, a component of Emory Healthcare, is an outreach physician practice organization that includes divisions of primary care, cardiology, anesthesiology, pathology, and emergency medicine. Its largest member is Emory Clark-Holder Clinic, a multispecialty group serving LaGrange. Ga., and its newest addition is a primary care practice in Stockbridge.
In conjunction with Air Methods Corporation, Emory provides medical oversight for five Emory Flight helicopters 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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Emory University Hospital
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Wesley Woods Center
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EHCA, LLC
Emory Eastside Medical Center
Emory Johns Creek Hospital
Emory Healthcare Components
Emory University Hospital (founded 1905)
Robert Bachman, COO
A 579-bed adult, tertiary care facility, Emory University Hospital is staffed by 1,129 Emory School of Medicine faculty and 37 community physicians. It includes a 20-bed psychiatric facility, 93 ICU beds, a 56-bed rehab center, and a nine-bed clinical research center supported by the NIH. Patients in 2009: 23,419 admissions and 90,009 outpatient services. Employees: 3,812. The hospital is long known for cardiology, cardiac surgery, orthopaedics, oncology, and neurology/neurosurgery. It is home to the Emory Center for Critical Care and is one of the region¿s most comprehensive transplant centers. It was named in 11 of 16 specialties ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. For the 12th 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 1,006 Emory medical faculty and 510 community physicians. Medical services include 56 intensive care beds, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, and four hyperbaric oxygen units. Patients in 2009: 22,666 admissions and 166,996 outpatient services. Employees: 2,779. 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.
Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital (founded 2007)
Robert Bachman, COO
June Connor, Administrator
An extension of Emory University Hospital¿s acute care services, Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital is located 7 miles east of the university campus. It 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: 203.
The Emory Clinic (founded 1953)
Wright Caughman, MD, Director
Donald Brunn, COO
The largest, most comprehensive group practice in Georgia, The Emory Clinic has more than 1,500 physicians, nurse clinicians, physician assistants, and other providers and more than 30 locations in Atlanta and throughout the state. Employees: 2,336. Patient services in 2009: 2,074,095. Clinic facilities on the Emory University campus include multispecialty and primary care sites, Winship Cancer Institute, and geriatric outpatient care at Wesley Woods. Clinic physicians practice at numerous sites throughout metro Atlanta: 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, WellStar Kennestone, Cumming, Cartersville, Stockbridge, and Villa Rica. 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 120 Emory physician faculty involved in pediatric clinical services, teaching, research, and child advocacy. In addition to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (at Egleston and at Scottish Rite hospitals), ECC provides specialty pediatric care at Emory University Hospital Midtown and at pediatric clinics on Emory's campus and throughout the state. Patient services in 2009: 180,164 (inpatient), and 49,665 (outpatient). Staff employees: 120.
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 2009: 2,123 admissions and 12,221 outpatient services. Employees: 640 (Wesley Woods Center) and 277 (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-Adventist Hospital (founded 1974)
Dennis Kiley, President
As part of its commitment to community care, Emory Healthcare 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 than 175 physicians. Patients in 2009: 2,065 admissions and 46,224 outpatient services. Employees: 450.
Lawrence Kloess, 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
Located in Snellville, Ga., Emory Eastside Medical Center is a 231-bed acute care hospital with 450 Emory and community physicians. The hospital has a 22-bed labor and delivery unit, an 18-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a 17-bed joint and spine pavilion. Services also include specialty care for cardiology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and oncology in addition to other specialties. Patients in 2009: 12,019 admissions and 71,249 outpatient services. Employees: 1,400.
Emory Johns Creek Hospital (founded 2007)
John Quinlivan, CEO
Located in the north metro area, Emory Johns Creek Hospital is a 110-bed facility staffed by 687 Emory and community physicians. Services include emergency care, digital imaging, a birth center with level III neonatal intensive care, adult intensive care, a bariatric center, advanced cardiac care, and women¿s services. Patients in 2009: 4,436 admissions and 45,092 outpatient services. Employees: 545.
