Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1998 when Egleston Children's Hospital and Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center joined to form a unified healthcare system. In 2006, Children’s assumed managerial control of Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital on the Grady campus. The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals are consistently counted among the best pediatric hospitals in the country by US News & World Report, Child Magazine, and Parents Magazine.

CHOA is the largest pediatric healthcare systems in the Southeast, and among the largest in the United States. In 2008 the combined practice included:

• 553,069 patient visits
• 24,037 hospital admissions
• 141,669 inpatient days
• 529,032 outpatient visits
• 38,174 surgical procedures (inpatient and outpatient)
• 170,288 Emergency department visits

Residents in the Emory program work primarily on the Egleston and Hughes Spalding campuses. Over the course of 36 months of training, residents gain approximately 55 percent of their experience at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, 40 percent of their experience on the Grady/Hughes Spalding campus, and one month as a PL-3 at Scottish Rite.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston is a 255 bed hospital with approximately 10,000 admissions per year. The hospital was founded in 1928 as the Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, and it’s affiliation as Emory University’s pediatric teaching affiliate dates back to 1956. In 2007 a major expansion was completed as part of a $365 million project. This expansion added approximately 375,900 square feet of new space and 95,800 square feet of renovated space to the hospital. The expansion allowed for increased sizes and improvements in many units including the PICU (now 30 beds), Aflac Cancer Center (now 34 beds), Emergency Room (doubled in size), and Sibley Heart Center (now 54 beds). Egleston offers a full complement of subspecialty services and is able to provide care for a range of patients dealing with common pediatric ailments, to complex patients requiring organ or bone marrow transplantation, or ICU patients requiring ECMO.



Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding is a freestanding pediatric hospital located in downtown Atlanta, on the campus of the Grady Health System. The hospital offers care to both inpatients with an 18 bed pediatric unit and a busy 24 hour emergency care center that sees more than 50,000 visits each year. The outpatient clinics include the Pediatric Appointment Clinic (one of the main outpatient primary care experiences for residents), along with subspecialty services including an Asthma Center, Child Protection Clinic, and the Aflac Blood Disorders Service Sickle Cell Disease and Hematology Clinic. Ground was broken in 2008 for a $43 million replacement building which will be completed in 2009 that will provide a brand new expanded facility for both inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room care.



Grady Memorial Hospital Nurseries

Grady originally opened in 1882 with 110 beds and now stands as one of the largest public health systems in the United States. Grady Memorial Hospital currently holds 953 beds, and serves as the primary site for Emory Pediatric Residents to obtain delivery room and nursery experience throughout their training. Annually over 4,000 newborns are delivered at Grady Hospital. Residents rotate through the newborn term nursery, as well as the NICU, a level 3 neonatal unit featuring multidisciplinary support for its 42 NICU/ventilator beds and 27 intermediate care nursery beds.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite is located on the perimeter of Atlanta, and currently holds 249 beds including 172 general pediatric beds and 77 intensive care beds, and also manages approximately 10,000 admissions per year. Residents currently rotate through Scottish Rite one month during third year and on an elective basis. These rotations allow them to experience a private-practice full-time pediatric hospitalist model. This allows our senior residents to have the opportunity to work individually with hospitalist faculty in a more community oriented setting, providing additional exposure contrasted with the more traditional academically structured services.