Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

The Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston Hospital is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 295-bed,[1] pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is affiliated with the Emory University School of Medicine[2] and is a member of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta system, 1 of 3 of the children's hospitals in the system. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the Atlanta region.[3] The hospital features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center, the only in the state.[4] Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the region. The hospital also has a rooftop helipad for critical pediatric transport.[5]

CHOA Egleston Hospital
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Egleston Hospital
Geography
LocationAtlanta, Georgia, USA
Coordinates33.7941°N 84.3203°W / 33.7941; -84.3203
Organisation
FundingNon-profit hospital
TypeGeneral
Affiliated universityEmory University School of Medicine
NetworkChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta
Services
Emergency departmentLevel 1 Pediatric Trauma Center
Beds295
HelipadFAA LID: 60GA
History
Opened1928
Links
Websitehttp://www.choa.org

The hospital is scheduled to be replaced in 2025 by the under-construction Arthur M. Blank Hospital in the North Druid Hills region of Atlanta.[6]

History

In 1928, Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children opened in the Old Fourth Ward east of downtown Atlanta at 640 Forrest Avenue (now Ralph McGill Blvd.). It opened with the financial support of Thomas R. Egleston Jr. In the first year the 52-bed facility was open, 605 children were treated. The original hospital site was on the north side of Forrest Avenue (now Ralph McGill Blvd.) on the east side of Fortune St. (today Wabash Ave.).[7] Today the AMLI Parkside apartments occupy the site.

The hospital contained the original Dolly Blalock Black Memorial Garden,[8] dedicated to Elizabeth "Dolly" Blalock, wife of Eugene R. Black, Sr., president of the World Bank.

In the 1950s Egleston became the pediatric teaching hospital affiliate for the Emory University School of Medicine, and in 1959 relocated to the university's campus. A prominent local and women's rights activist Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer played an important role at the hospital as its trustee, President of the Auxiliary department and Director of Volunteers until 1976.

In 1959 the Atlanta Housing Authority purchased the Forrest Avenue site and planned a 350-unit complex there, which Black groups had argued for to relieve overcrowding in the Sweet Auburn area to the west. White homeowners complained that this would mean Black encroachment eastwards, and so City Council aldermen refused rezone the site, offering instead to clean up the Buttermilk Bottom slum.[9]

In 1987 the hospital opens a medical-psychiatric unit. Today the unit is one of only six university-affiliated units especially for children in the United States.

The hospital is now a part of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). CHOA formed in 1998 when Egleston Children's Health Care System and Scottish Rite Medical Center came together, becoming one of the largest pediatric systems in the United States.

Old Rainbow Logo of Egleston prior to 1998 merger becoming Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

The City of Atlanta annexed the hospital site effective January 1, 2018.[10] The health system had requested that the Atlanta city government annex the area including Egleston Hospital. Previously the headquarters were in an unincorporated area,[11] statistically counted in the Druid Hills census-designated place.[12]

Currently, a new CHOA hospital is under construction in the North Druid Hills area. The new hospital will be named the Arthur M. Blank Hospital and will replace Egleston Hospital when opened in 2025. The future of Egleston is unknown after the opening of the new hospital.[13]

Awards

As of 2021, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta has placed nationally in all 10 ranked pediatric specialties on U.S. News & World Report.

2021 U.S. News & World Report Rankings for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta[14]
Specialty Rank (In the U.S.) Score (Out of 100)
Neonatology #11 89.3
Pediatric Cancer #7 93.5
Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery #26 77.2
Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology #42 66.3
Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery #8 90.9
Pediatric Nephrology #8 90.4
Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery #12 85.5
Pediatric Orthopedics #10 84.0
Pediatric Pulmonology & Lung Surgery #17 80.2
Pediatric Urology #19 68.4

See also

References
  1. "American Hospital Directory - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Egleston Hospital (113300) - Free Profile". www.ahd.com. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  2. "General Pediatric Residency Program: Hospitals". Emory University School of Medicine. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. "About Us". Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Archived from the original on 2020-10-04. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  4. "Trauma Centers". American College of Surgeons. Archived from the original on 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  5. "AirNav: 60GA - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston Heliport". www.airnav.com. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  6. Lagasse, Jeff (20 February 2017). "Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to build new $1 billion pediatric center". Healthcare Finance News. Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  7. "1928 map of Atlanta at Emory digital collections". Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  8. ""EDWARD L. DAUGHERTY, A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT", Garden Citings, Cherokee Gardens Library Newsletter, 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  9. Stephen Grant Meyer, As long as they don't move next door: segregation and racial conflict in American neighborhoods
  10. Niesse, Mark. "City of Atlanta's expansion to Emory and CDC approved". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017. The city's 744-acre addition covers [...] Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
  11. Torpy, Bill (2017-08-07). "Torpy at Large: DeKalb has annexation anxiety over Emory, CDC". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  12. "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Druid Hills CDP, GA Archived 2020-03-12 at the Wayback Machine." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 1, 2017. Compare this with the address of the hospital: "1405 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322-1062"
  13. Allison, David (24 July 2019). "New renderings released of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's $1.5B campus". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  14. "Best Children's Hospitals: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta". U.S. News & World Report. 2021. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
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