Our inpatient clinical facilities for the Division of Neonatology at Emory include three major Emory-affiliated hospitals in Atlanta.
Grady Memorial Hospital is the largest general hospital in Georgia and is among the largest in the nation. Grady has a long history as the major teaching site for Emory students and housestaff, and it serves the citizens of Atlanta as a full-service adult hospital with a bed capacity of nearly 1000 patients. The obstetrical service is the tertiary referral site for more than 50% of births in Georgia, and the Level III NICU manages more than 700 admissions each year.
Emory University Hospital-Midtown manages community and tertiary-care patients and is located off-campus in downtown Atlanta. It is one of the nation's leading community-based, acute care teaching facilities with an outstanding reputation in the fields of maternal and newborn care. Along with Grady Hospital, Midtown serves as our perinatal referral center, managing both high-risk maternal and neonatal transports. The labor and delivery suites at Midtown accommodate more than 6000 births each year. The NICU at Emory University Hospital-Midtown is a 48-bed Level III unit.
Grady Memorial Hospital is the largest general hospital in Georgia and is among the largest in the nation. Grady has a long history as the major teaching site for Emory students and housestaff, and it serves the citizens of Atlanta as a full-service adult hospital with a bed capacity of nearly 1000 patients. The obstetrical service is the tertiary referral site for more than 50% of births in Georgia, and the Level III NICU manages more than 700 admissions each year.
Emory University Hospital-Midtown manages community and tertiary-care patients and is located off-campus in downtown Atlanta. It is one of the nation's leading community-based, acute care teaching facilities with an outstanding reputation in the fields of maternal and newborn care. Along with Grady Hospital, Midtown serves as our perinatal referral center, managing both high-risk maternal and neonatal transports. The labor and delivery suites at Midtown accommodate more than 6000 births each year. The NICU at Emory University Hospital-Midtown is a 48-bed Level III unit.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston is a nearly 300-bed children’s hospital that has nationally-recognized inpatient, acute, secondary, and quaternary referral capabilities for infants and children. The neonatal clinical service at this site is a 50-bed unit that provides Level IV care, including high-frequency ventilation, pre- and postoperative surgical management, ECMO, CRRT and nitric oxide treatment. The hospital will be upsizing to 446 beds after moving to the newly constructed Arthur M. Blank Hospital September 29, 2024. The NICU will open with 60-beds, with available areas to expand after the hospital opens.
The Department of Pediatrics and the Emory-Children’s Pediatric Institute is one of the largest pediatric departments in the country with more than 500 faculty members, 90 residents, and nearly 100 post-doctoral clinical fellows. Fully-accredited fellowships are currently available in nearly all major pediatric subspecialties including cardiology, allergy/immunology, critical care medicine, emergency medicine, endocrinology, nephrology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, hospital medicine, infectious diseases, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, genetics and neurology. Emory University, a private institution comprised of nine schools and colleges, was founded in 1836. The School of Medicine was founded in 1854 and supports an extensive program of teaching, research, and service that involves approximately more than 2,000 full and part-time faculty members and 1,300 medical students and house officers.