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About Us
North Fulton Regional Hospital NFRH recently completed an expansion that took the facility from 167 to 202 beds The acutecare hospital is located on Highway 9 Alpharetta Highway in Roswell Opened in 1983 NFRH serves North Fulton and surrounding counties through its team of over 1000 employees 400 staff physicians and 200 volunteers NFRH is a statedesignated Level II trauma center and provides a continuum of services through its centers and programs including neurosciences orthopedics rehabilitation surgical services bariatric surgical weight loss gastroenterology and oncology The hospital is fully accredited and also is certified as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations the nations oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency

General Facts
167bed acute care community hospital between Roswell and Alpharetta in North Fulton County Established on a 47acre tract in 1983 the hospital has been meeting the medical and health care needs of residents of North Fulton Forsyth East Cobb East Cherokee and West Gwinnett counties for more than a decade The hospital has a medical staff of more than 400 affiliated physicians employs an additional 900 health care professionals and has an active volunteer staff of more than 200

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History

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Ideas for a fullservice hospital serving those in the North Fulton area began in 1980 as local legislators public officials and private citizens saw a need for medical care in the area After two years of discussion legal proceedings and preliminary planning meetings final approval was passed down by the Georgia State Health Planning and Development Agency on January 6 of 1982 for the new hospital then known as North Fulton Medical Center

Construction began on October 4 1982 on 38 acres of pasture land that was once occupied by a barn surrounded by dirt trees and a twolane country road At that time Highway 9 was not the major AlpharettaRoswell throughway it is today

The hospitals first administrator Martin Perlin assumed his role in the late spring of 1982 before the hospital construction began A leader with an eye for future growth Perlin knew the preliminary plans for the hospital would need to include room for expansion as the community was likely to explode in the years to come

In a May 27 1982 article published in the North Fulton Extra Perlin is quoted as saying Five years down the road its going to be too little Were building a base so it can be doubled in capacity And noting the rapid growth in the North Fulton area Perlin said North Fulton Medical Center is in the right place at the right time

Looking today at the AlpharettaRoswell area where North Fulton Hospital as it is now known now sits it would appear that Perlin was exactly right Population growth in the North Fulton area is booming fueled by the wide variety of corporations and businesses the highquality school system and the many familyfriendly community and social outlets and the growth does not seem to be slowing So North Fulton Hospital is responding

In 1982 initial plans for the hospital included capacity for 175 beds which allowed for future expansion On November 6 1983 the hospital officially opened its doors as a onestory 108734 square foot facility with a two story Atrium front to accommodate a second or third level when needed At that time North Fulton Medical Center provided 24hour emergency services obstetrical services and intensive and coronary care units Outpatient services included ambulatory surgery prenatal clinics and laboratory and radiology services

Today the hospital has grown to 202beds housed inside an expanded facility While Emergency Services remain a primary focus of the hospital other such areas of specialty include Neurosciences Orthopedics Oncology and General Surgery