Northside Hospital Atlanta (originally Northside Hospital; sometimes Northside Atlanta) is a hospital serving the metro Atlanta area located in the "Pill Hill" neighborhood in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Opened in 1970, the hospital is the flagship and original location of the Northside Hospital System; as of 2023[update], it has 621 beds and employs 2,300 physicians and over 11,000 staff. Northside Atlanta delivers the most babies of any hospital in the United States.[1][2]
| Northside Hospital Atlanta | |||||||||||
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| Northside Hospital System | |||||||||||
 Northside Atlanta in 2011 | |||||||||||
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| Geography | |||||||||||
| Location | Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°54′32″N 84°21′14″W / 33.90901°N 84.35394°W | ||||||||||
| Organization | |||||||||||
| Funding | Non-profit hospital | ||||||||||
| Type | General | ||||||||||
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| Standards | Level IV Maternal Center | ||||||||||
| Beds | 621 | ||||||||||
| Helipads | |||||||||||
| Helipad | FAA LID: GA55 | ||||||||||
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| Public transit access | MARTA: N8 Medical Center (Red Line) MARTA Bus: 825 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Former name(s) | Northside Hospital | ||||||||||
| Opened | July 6, 1970 | ||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Lists | Hospitals in Georgia | ||||||||||
History
editNorthside Hospital opened on July 6, 1970.[3] The hospital had 288 beds, 80 doctors, and around 400 employees.[4]
The hospital is owned by the Hospital Authority of Fulton County.[5]
In May 1999, Northside's Women's Center opened to the public.[6]
Northside Atlanta expanded in 2018 with the eight-story East Tower, which added 81 beds to the hospital's capacity. The new tower's patient pickup and dropoff motor lobby area features a mural by contemporary Atlanta artist Ryan Coleman.[2][7][8]
In 2023, Northside Atlanta became the first hospital in the country to receive a level IV verification from the Joint Commission's Maternal Levels of Care program.[1]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Gratas, Sofi (January 19, 2023). "Northside Atlanta is first hospital in the U.S. with top-tier maternal care designation". GPB.
- ^ a b "Northside Hospital Atlanta Completes New Eight-Story Patient Tower". Northside Hospital Foundation. July 13, 2018.
- ^ Price-Richardson, Zenzele (3 December 2015). "Northside Hospital Auxiliary honors volunteers". Appen Media.
- ^ "History of Northside Hospital Forsyth and Auxiliary" (PDF). NHF Auxiliary. April 2023.
- ^ Teegardin, Carrie (December 1, 2015). "Northside Hospital: records not public's business". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- ^ Jackson, Reeves (February 23, 2023). "Former president, CEO of Northside Hospital who expanded hospital's impact dies at 88". 11Alive.
- ^ "Northside Hospital Atlanta, GA". Ryan Coleman Art. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ DeMuth, Mary Ann (July 2018). "Making Mural Magic". Georgia Trend. 33 (11): 17. ISSN 0882-5971.