Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Children's) is a not-for-profit organization formed by the merger of Egleston Children's Hospital and Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center and the subsequent acquisition of Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital. Consistently ranked among the best pediatric hospitals in the country by US News & World Report, Child Magazine, and Parents Magazine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is the largest pediatric healthcare system in the Southeast and is among the largest in the United States. In 2021, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta served:
- 1,091,000+ patient visits
- 414,000+ patients from all 159 counties in Georgia
- 27,760 hospital discharges
- 41,000+ surgical patients (inpatient and outpatient)
- More than 218,000 emergency department visits with Emory clinicians providing the majority of care
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Located adjacent to the Emory campus, Egleston is a 330 bed hospital with over 70,000 ED visits and over 84,000 inpatient days. Founded in 1928 as the Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, it has served as Emory University’s pediatric teaching affiliate since 1956.
Egleston offers a full complement of subspecialty services as well as organ and bone marrow transplantation. ICU facilities include a dedicated Cardiac Intensive Care unit and ECMO capabilities in PICU, NICU and CICU.
Residents rotate through General Pediatrics and Subspecialty Inpatient Wards, PICU, and the Emergency Department.