The Clifton Corridor, consisting of approximately 250 acres along Clifton Road, extends through the Emory University campus and is the locale for most of the facilities of Emory's medical, public health, and nursing schools and its graduate science programs.
Facilities located along this corridor include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the national headquarters for the American Cancer Society, the world's largest volunteer health organization. Other facilities include The Emory Clinic, the Winship Cancer Center, Emory University Hospital, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University School of Medicine, The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University, the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Rollins Research Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Marcus Center.
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (WHSCAB)
Administrative offices of the executive vice president for health affairs and executive director of The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center and of the dean of the School of Medicine and its administrative staff are located in this building. WHSCAB also includes a large auditorium, conference rooms, photocopy services, and facilities for medical illustration and photography. The Office of Medical Education and Student Affairs is on the third floor of this building.
Woodruff Memorial Research Building
The addition and renovation of this facility were completed in 1995. The building comprises approximately 350,000 square feet of research laboratory and faculty office space for some faculty of the anesthesiology, dermatology, gynecology and obstetrics, medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, pathology and laboratory medicine, pediatric genetics, psychiatry, radiology, and surgery departments. The anesthesiology and patient monitoring systems program is also located here.
John P. Scott Anatomy Building and T.T. Fishburne Physiology Building
This complex provides facilities for the anatomy and cell biology and physiology departments, lecture rooms for use of classes in the health sciences, and laboratory facilities for anatomy and physiology. Offices and research laboratories are provided for faculty of the anatomy and cell biology and physiology departments.
Rollins Research Center
Completed in 1990, this building is an expression of Emory's commitment to medical and biological research. Containing 250,000 square feet of space, the Rollins Research Center offers state-of-the-art research facilities and offices for the biochemistry, biology, microbiology and immunology, pharmacology, physics, and psychology departments. The building also houses the animal resources division.
Grace Crum Rollins Public Health Building
This ten-story building opened in 1994. Containing 137,000 square feet of space on Clifton Road next to the Rollins Research Center, the building houses the Rollins School of Public Health, which includes offices, teaching and meeting rooms, and laboratories for Emory public health students, faculty, and staff.
Pediatric Building
Located on Ridgewood Drive, adjacent to Egleston Children's Hospital, this building provides research laboratories and offices for the pediatrics department and the Children's Heart Center. Classrooms and study areas located here are used by faculty, house officers, and students in the pediatrics department.
Biomedical/Dental Building
Recently renovated, this building is located on Clifton Road and houses the Health Sciences Center Library, the Carlos Centers for Surgical Anatomy and Technique, teaching and research facilities, student laboratories, the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Genetics, and the Center for Molecular Medicine. The physician assistant program is also located in this building.
Ronald McDonald Childhood Cancer Clinic
A part of The Emory Clinic, this building is adjacent to the Pediatric Building and provides outpatient services for children with cancer and blood diseases. On the second floor of the building are research laboratories for basic and clinical investigation of childhood cancer and other diseases.
1711 Uppergate
The Student Health Service, both inpatient and outpatient, some administrative offices, and outpatient facilities for the psychiatry department are located in this building.
The Emory Eye Center and the Winship Cancer Center
Both of these facilities are located in Building B of The Emory Clinic. Each includes outpatient surgery, research laboratories, and outpatient clinics for the investigation and treatment of eye diseases and various forms of cancer and related disorders. The ophthalmic technology program is also located in Building B.
The Marcus Center at Emory University
This nonprofit corporation, located on Ridgewood Road, provides comprehensive, coordinated information and services to disabled children and their families. Services include physical, psychological, and social diagnosis and evaluation; medical, social/emotional, and educational intervention; and professional training to physicians, psychologists, social workers, speech-language therapists, and others who provide services to children with disabilities.
Emory Healthcare (EH) is the health care delivery system through which Emory physicians and other health care providers offer patient care services to individuals, health insurers, managed care organizations, and employers.
Emory Healthcare consists of The Emory Clinic, the nonprofit group practice of more than 800 physicians who are faculty members of the School of Medicine, and 15 Emory clinical health centers located throughout greater metropolitan Atlanta; Emory Hospitals, which include Emory University Hospital, a 587-bed adult, tertiary care facility on the Emory campus, and Crawford Long Hospital, a 583-bed community-based, tertiary care center in Atlanta's midtown; Emory-Adventist Hospital, a facility in Cobb County with 88 acute care beds and 12 skilled nursing beds; Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital, a 100-bed hospital near the Emory campus; Egleston Children's Hospital, a 235-bed hospital located in the heart of Emory's main clinical campus; and other physician practice plans of Emory medical school physicians through which Emory physicians offer care at Grady Memorial Hospital and Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University. Emory physicians also practice at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In addition, community hospitals throughout Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Delaware comprise a sixty-hospital network designed to support a community-based health care system.
Emory Healthcare is also part of Georgia 1st, a statewide network of physicians and hospitals formed by Emory Healthcare; its affiliated hospitals across the state; MCG Health, Inc., a cooperative organization of the Medical College of Georgia; and physicians affiliated with these facilities. A non-profit membership organization, Georgia 1st is designed to serve as a delivery system for HMOs, PPOs, insurers, and others with statewide managed care products or contracts.
The following facilities serve as primary clinical training resources for the allied health programs. In addition, individual programs have affiliations with multiple clinical sites for training throughout the region and the country.
The principal clinical facilities of the School of Medicine are Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University, Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University, and Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital at Emory University. Additional important clinical facilities include Scottish Rite Children's Hospital of Georgia, Piedmont Hospital, and the Georgia Mental Health Institute. Through its affiliated hospitals, the school offers residency training in anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family practice medicine, gynecology/obstetrics, internal medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, pathology, pediatrics, preventive medicine, psychiatry, radiology, rehabilitation medicine, and surgery and in all divisions or subspecialties of these disciplines.
Emory University Hospital
Owned and operated by the university and located on the campus, Emory University Hospital is a 587-bed adult tertiary care hospital caring for 20,000 patients a year. The hospital includes a 47-bed Uppergate Pavilion psychiatric facility, a 56-bed Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, and a 13-bed Clinical Research Center supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Staffed exclusively by School of Medicine faculty who are also members of The Emory Clinic, the hospital is renowned as one of the nation's leaders in cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, and the neurosciences. In recent years, Emory has become one of the region's most diverse multiple organ and tissue transplant centers.
For seven years in a row, U.S. News & World Report has selected Emory Hospital as one of the country's top ten cardiology centers. In addition, a recent national survey ranked Emory as one of the nation's top one hundred general acute hospitals with the best operational, clinical, and financial performances.
Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University
A 583-bed community and tertiary care hospital, Crawford Long Hospital has been owned by Emory University since 1941. Located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Crawford Long includes four 12-bed adult intensive care units, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, and a two-chamber hyperbaric oxygen unit.
Crawford Long is nationally known for its work in cardiology and cardiac surgery and lung diseases. Other highly regarded specialties include gastroenterology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, maternal and infant medicine, orthopaedics, and emergency medicine. The hospital complex covers five city blocks and includes a three-building physicians' office complex, the Isobel Fraser Outpatient Center, a cardiothoracic research laboratory, and a medical museum.
Because of its convenient location, Crawford Long provides important health care resources and services to the downtown business district and convention industry. In 1994 Crawford Long received its second consecutive accreditation with commendation from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Emory-Adventist Hospital
As part of its commitment to community care, Emory joined with Adventist Health System/Sunbelt Health Care Corporation in 1995 to create a joint venture corporation to acquire the former Smyrna Hospital in Cobb County. With 88 acute care beds and 12 skilled nursing beds, the hospital is staffed by 100 physicians, including those from The Emory Clinic who provide the specialized services for which the clinic is best known.
Grady Memorial Hospital
The School of Medicine's principal clinical teaching base for undergraduate medical students, Grady also provides training for interns, residents, and allied health students. A shuttle bus runs between Grady and Crawford Long Hospitals and the Emory campus every hour at no charge and provides transportation for medical trainees.
Grady's present facility, with a bed capacity of over nine hundred, is among the largest hospitals in the Southeast. Operated under the Fulton/DeKalb Hospital Authority for the care of indigent patients of the two counties, Grady cared for more than 40,000 inpatients last year. Its outpatient department recorded 850,000 visits, including more than 250,000 in the emergency clinic. Emory University, through a contractual arrangement, provides professional services to the hospital.
Since 1974, satellite outpatient medical facilities (five in Fulton and two in DeKalb County) have been developed in the metropolitan Atlanta area under the medical direction of the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine. There were more than 100,000 visits to these facilities last year. These clinics, funded by the DeKalb and Fulton county commissions, have furnished ambulatory care for underserved adults and children in areas relatively isolated from the central outpatient facilities at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University
Egleston Hospital is a licensed, 235-bed pediatric referral center for Georgia and the Southeast. It is the largest and most comprehensive children's medical facility in Georgia. Affiliated with Emory University School of Medicine, the hospital is located adjacent to the university campus and provides training for nurses, allied health professionals, medical students, and residents in pediatrics, anesthesiology, radiology, surgery, and many subspecialties. Services include open heart surgery, renal dialysis, and bone marrow, corneal, kidney, heart/lung, and liver transplants. Facilities include the Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Center, the Pediatric MRI Center, the Medical/Psychiatric Unit, three intensive care units (cardiac, neonatal, pediatric), a trauma room, and a day surgery area. The Egleston Cystic Fibrosis Center is located in a new facility near the hospital. More than 8,000 inpatients and 100,000 outpatients are treated in the hospital each year, including those seen at Egleston Children's Health Centers in Gwinnett, Cobb, and Fulton Counties.The hospital is part of the Egleston Children's Health Care System, which meets the total needs of children by providing preventive, primary, urgent, hospital, specialty, and home care.
Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located near the main Emory campus. This 321-bed general medical and surgical hospital and 120-bed nursing home had 8,000 discharges and 233,000 outpatient visits in 1996. It is a major affiliate of Emory University School of Medicine, and many of its staff have faculty appointments. Their research program is in the top fifteen VAs in the country and includes seventy-nine principal investigators, 188 research projects, and total research funds of $10.8 million. Additionally, the medical center is affiliated with sixty other institutions involving twenty-four training programs.
A newly opened clinical addition has added a twelve-bed medical intensive care unit (MICU), 10-bed coronary care unit (CCU), new cardiac catheterization and pulmonary function laboratories, new radiology and radiation oncology space and equipment, new audiology and speech pathology space and equipment, and two floors of new research laboratories and an animal housing facility. The remainder of this construction project is underway and will provide state-of-the-art operating room suites, a surgical pharmacy, and new facilities for physical medicine and rehabilitation, nuclear medicine, GI, EEG, and radiology. The Atlanta VA Medical Center is an integral part of the available health care in the local area and the state.
The Emory Clinic
The Emory Clinic is a nonprofit group practice of more than eight hundred physicians who teach at Emory's medical and public health schools. Sections of the clinic correspond to academic departments or divisions, and all major specialties of clinical practice are represented. Well-developed ambulatory care facilities are located close to Emory University's hospitals on the university campus and at Crawford Long, and close to the affiliate facilities at Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital and Egleston Children's Hospital. In addition, the clinic has a growing number of primary care facilities in north, central, and south Atlanta. These facilities include The Emory Clinic on Clifton Road, The Emory Clinic at Crawford Long, The Emory Clinic at Fayetteville, The Emory Clinic at Lawrenceville, The Emory Clinic at Northlake, The Emory Clinic at Perimeter, The Emory Clinic at Piedmont, The Emory Clinic at Smyrna, The Emory Clinic at Snellville, The Emory Clinic at Social Circle, The Emory Clinic at South DeKalb, The Emory Clinic at Wesley Woods, The Emory Clinic at West Marietta, and Emory/CIGNA HealthCare Center, located near Hartsfield Airport. Primary care is provided in all locations, and additional specialty care and occupational health care are provided in some locations. All member physicians of The Emory Clinic spend a significant portion of their time in teaching, research, and administrative duties for the School of Medicine, in addition to their clinical services, which range from primary through tertiary care..
Center for Rehabilitation Medicine
The Center for Rehabilitation Medicine houses the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory's rehabilitation research activities, the comprehensive rehabilitation patient services of Emory University Hospital, the rehabilitation medicine section of the Emory Clinic, and the Division of Physical Therapy. Programs and activities at the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine help both inpatients and outpatients work toward achieving independence and optimal function following disabling disease or injury. Teams of physicians, clinical psychologists, nurses, therapists, and a number of other rehabilitation specialists use established techniques, as well as the results of recent research, in the diagnosis and management of patients with physical and cognitive disabilities.
M. B. Seretean Center for Health Promotion
The Seretean Center opened in the summer of 1997 and houses a number of health- and wellness-related programs of the Rollins School of Public Health. The center was established to provide a leadership program of health promotion that will make Emory the "healthiest campus in the world." The center will develop model programs that other institutions and communities can follow. Initially, the primary beneficiaries will be the faculty, students, and staff of Emory University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and affiliated institutions.
The Health Sciences Center Library
The Health Sciences Center Library, one of five specialized libraries on the Emory campus, is housed at 1462 Clifton Road. Clinical branch libraries are maintained in Emory University Hospital and in the Glenn Memorial Building opposite Grady Memorial Hospital. An electronic satellite library, located on the sixteenth floor at Grady, provides twenty-four-hour access to health sciences literature.
The library comprises the following collections: A.W. Calhoun medical collection, Alice Kydd Davis nursing collection, S.W. Foster dental collection, and the collection from the American Cancer Society. The library serves students, faculty, and other eligible users with a collection of more than 220,000 volumes, 2,489 current periodicals, a computer laboratory and electronic classroom, and audiovisual materials and facilities.
The library is open seven days a week. Services include document delivery, circulation, reference, multi-media development and support, classes in online literature searching and reference management databases, and clinical librarianship. The library participates in the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and obtains loans of books and photocopies of articles from health science libraries throughout the country.
For more information, visit the World Wode Web site: http://www.emory.edu/WHSCLmedweb.html
Robert W. Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies
The Woodruff Library provides services, collections, and facilities for study and research. The public services division provides reference services, lending services, interlibrary loan, and copy services. A variety of computerized databases may be accessed directly by users or with staff assistance. Reference staff members provide both group and individual bibliographic assistance. The Special Collections Department houses rare books, university archives, manuscripts, and several notable collections.
Other Library Resources
Students may use all libraries within the University Center consortium by obtaining an interlibrary use card at an Emory library reference department. The card may be used to borrow materials not available at Emory. Member libraries include those at Agnes Scott College, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta College of Art, Columbia Theological Seminary, Emory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State College, Mercer University Atlanta, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Oglethorpe University, Southern Technical Institute, Spelman College, and the University of Georgia.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is located in one of the oldest buildings on campus as well as one of the newest. Its 1916 beaux-arts design by Henry Hornbostel placed it on the National Register of Historic Places. Post-modernist architect Michael Graves designed the interior renovation, completed in 1985, and the thirty-five-thousand-square-foot expansion completed in 1993.
The museum's extensive archaeological holdings from the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East are unique in the Southeast and include Egyptian mummies and artifacts from ancient Palestine, excavated at Jericho, Jerusalem, and Caesarea. The collection includes illuminated manuscript pages, drawings, and prints from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present. Asian art also is represented, notably by prints and photographs from nineteenth-century Japan.
The Carter Center addresses national and international issues of public policy. Drawing on the resources of virtually the entire Emory community, including former President Jimmy Carter (now University Distinguished Professor), and bringing to the campus a wide range of international scholars, statesmen, business executives, and other professionals, the center provides an opportunity to merge the knowledge of the academy with the practice of public affairs. Areas of study and activity include international security and arms control, healthcare, the environment, conflict resolution, the world economy, Latin American affairs, human rights, and African governance. In 1991, The Carter Center launched the Atlanta Project, a collaborative effort to establish a new model for addressing the social ills of America's cities.
Students regularly participate as volunteers and interns in planning and implementing center programs, engage in research projects with center fellows, and attend center consultations and conferences. While the center itself does not offer a degree program, fellows and associates teach in the college and other schools of the university.
The associated Jimmy Carter Library, containing more than 27 million documents, photographs, films, and mementos of the Carter presidency, serves scholarly researchers and, through its museum, the general public.