Emory Crawford Long Hospital

Description

A Tradition of Healing
Each year more than 150000 patients arrive at our doors to receive highly specialized medical care and to benefit from the groundbreaking research and innovative treatments available through our ties to Emory University Since opening nearly a century ago as a 26bed sanatorium we have become one of the nations leading communitybased acute care teaching facilities nationally recognized in fields such as cardiology and heartrelated diseases reconstructive surgery maternal and infant care orthopaedics and astrointestinal diseases

Emory Crawford Long Hospital is a 511bed communitybased acute care teaching facility and fullservice hospital located in Midtown Atlanta A component of Emory Healthcare the hospital offers a full range of services which include general medicine maternal and infant care orthopaedics and surgeryEmory Crawford Long is staffed by 600 Emory medical faculty and 800 community physicians More than 23205 inpatients and 143961 outpatients come to Emory Crawford Long Hospital each year Patients receive care from communitybased physicians physicians of The Emory Clinic and from a highlytrained staff of nurses and other clinical professionals

Medical services include 56 intensive care beds a level III neonatal intensive care unit and four hyperbaric oxygen units This fullservice hospital is well known for services in cardiology cardiac surgery gastroenterology and emergency medicine Womens services include prenatal and postnatal education bone density testing mammography and obstetrics with a specialization in highrisk pregnancy

History

The birth of the Emory Crawford Long Hospital medical complex occurred in 1908 with the founding of the 26bed DavisFischer Sanatorium This fullservice hospital filled an urgent need for top quality operating facilities in Atlanta Three years later founders Dr EC Davis and Dr Luther Fischer moved the hospital to its present site bounded by Peachtree Street West Peachtree Street Linden Avenue and Pine StreetIn 1931 the full service hospital was renamed in honor of Dr Crawford W Long the Georgia physician who was the first to use ether anesthesia during surgery Visitors to the hospitals museum may see some of Dr Longs personal artifacts and medical memorabilia from the hospitals early days

Today Emory Crawford Long and the physicians and staff at our fullservice hospital continue to build relationships with the metro Atlanta community through employee participation in charity events such as walkathons screenings for prostate cancer and other health concerns facilitation of support groups and holiday events In addition Emory Crawford Long works with many Atlanta corporations to promote employee health and wellness From a 26bed sanatorium to a tertiary care facility with more than 550 beds Emory Crawford Long Hospital has a rich heritage For more than 85 years our fullservice hospital has established a solid foundation for outstanding quality health care and medical integrity for Atlantans and the Southeast