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S P O N S O R E D C O N T E N T Hospital Specialty Date Opened Location #Beds #Physicians

ECONOMIC
One Home at a Time HEALTHCARE Atlanta VA Medical Center Veterans 1966 Decatur 466 626 DEVELOPMENT

IN DEKALB Children’s Healthcare Pediatrics 1928 Decatur 289 240
of Atlanta
Emory Decatur Hospital
1961
Decatur
General
673
419
wide variety of medical specialties and hundreds of highly Emory Hillandale Hospital General 2005 Lithonia 90 346
skilled physicians strive to maintain the good health of the Emory Long-term Long-term 1994 Decatur 80 174
Acute Care Hospital
A citizens of DeKalb County.
Emory Rehabilitation Hospital Rehabilitation 1976 Decatur 56 N/A
DeKalb County residents find the care they staff includes more than 800 doctors in Emory University Hospital General 1922 Decatur 605 1,067
need with the region’s most comprehensive 55 specialties. In 2017, Atlanta Magazine Emory University Orthopaedics Orthopaedics 2008 Tucker 80 N/A
academic health system, Emory Healthcare. named 83 DeKalb Medical physicians as & Spine Hospital
Patients and families have a choice of “Top Doctors.” Emory University Hospital Geriatics 1987 Decatur 40 N/A
more than 2,000 doctors and 200 locations, at Wesley Woods
including seven hospitals in DeKalb DeKalb County has also been the proud
County alone, two affiliated hospitals, as home to Children’s Healthcare at Egleston, Grady Hospital General 1892 Atlanta* 640 1,068
ince 1980, Oakhurst Medical Center has been providing quality, affordable, culturally well as primacy care, urgent care, and one of the top pediatric hospitals in the * Health centers in Kirkwood & Brookhaven
sensitive, and accessible healthcare to the residents of DeKalb County. As a “one-stop MinuteClinics. nation, since 1928. Children’s is in the
Sshop for patients,” Oakhurst provides a complete array of primary healthcare services for process of building a replacement hospital DeKalb County Clinical Services
all of the life cycles inclusive of adult medicine/family medicine, pediatrics/adolescent health, DeKalb Medical, a not-for-profit community campus for Egleston with completion Board of Health In addition to community health centers
women’s health, OB/GYN, family planning, foot care/podiatry, behavioral health, infectious health system, recently became part of anticipated in 2026. The DeKalb County Board of Health is operated by Grady Hospital as well as the
disease, gastroenterology, and dental. the Emory Healthcare family, bringing in the second health department in Georgia DeKalb County Board of Health, DeKalb
three hospital campuses – Emory Decatur Atlanta’s Grady Hospital has long served to ever receive national accreditation (in County residents have access to Oakhurst
Our ability to serve a culturally diverse “Service at Oakhurst Clinic Hospital (formed in 1961), Emory Long-Term DeKalb County residents. Known as one 2016). The DeKalb County Board of Health: Medical Centers clinics for primary
healthcare services. Oakhurst clinics
community is facilitated by Oakhurst’s exceeded my expectations … I feel Acute Care (formed in 1994) and Emory of the nation’s best trauma centers, Grady • informs, educates, and empowers are in Stone Mountain, Northlake, Decatur
diverse staff, representing different very comfortable at this clinic and Hillandale (opened in 2005). Its medical also serves DeKalb County’s basic health the community about public health and Lithonia.
issues through different methods of
nationalities including Nigeria, Pakistan, plan to return in the future.” needs with health centers in Brookhaven communication
Panama, Rwanda, Somalia, and the – M. Gibson and Kirkwood. • mobilizes the community through
United States. partnerships to address the county’s
Other hospitals in DeKalb County provide public health problems
We are ordinary people who are committed to the mission of improving the quality of life in behavioral and mental healthcare. These • develops plans and policies to support
the communities we serve with a special focus on healthcare needs of the medically indigent include the publicly owned Georgia health efforts
and underinsured. Our goal remains to improve the health status and quality of life in the Regional Hospital in Decatur and the • links people to health services
communities we serve by providing healthcare services one home at a time. Emory at Hillandale private Peachford Hospital in Dunwoody.

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