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This geriatric center includes Wesley Woods Hospital (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 2007: 2,375 admissions
and 37,584 outpatient visits. Employees: 665 (Wesley Woods Center) and 271 (Wesley Woods Senior Living residential
retirement facilities, for which Emory Healthcare has management responsibilities). Wesley Woods is well known for its inpatient, outpatient, and day hospitalization programs in depression, sleep disorders, rehabilitation, and Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disease.
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