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S P O N S O R E D C O N T E N T Over the past 15 years, Children’s centers. Ten years ago, Marcus Autism
Healthcare of Atlanta has witnessed the Center opened its doors as a subsidiary
ECONOMIC
Chamber’s impact on our community as of Children’s and treats more than DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta it has worked to make DeKalb County a 5,500 children with autism and related
POLICY
great place to live, work and play. Through disorders a year.
our partnership with the Chamber, we
have been involved in the Education and Also located in DeKalb County is
irthdays and anniversaries are best shared with friends, and our
Workforce Development focus areas, Children’s first urgent care inside the
team at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is proud to share eight working with the Chamber on its efforts perimeter, the Chamblee-Brookhaven
B decades of growth and impact in DeKalb County with our friends to improve the lives of children living in Urgent Care Center, along with the Center
our community. for Advanced Pediatrics, which opened in
from the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce. July 2018. This outpatient, non-emergency

In recent years, we have worked with facility is the first of its kind in Georgia
school board members, school principals and brings together multiple pediatric
and community leaders to support clinics, programs and specialists under
initiatives like the DeKalb County Schools one roof to better treat children and
Seeing is Believing School Bus Tour and teens with chronic diseases and complex
the PAGE Student Teacher Achievement care needs.
Recognition (STAR) program that honors
DeKalb’s highest achieving high school But our future together is even brighter.
seniors and their teachers. We are continuing to work on our more
than 70-acre North Druid Hills campus,
Just as we live out our mission The Chamber, Children’s and which will transform an entire area
of making kids better today and our community all share the of our community. The campus will
healthier tomorrow inside our responsibility of improving include a new 446-bed hospital, acres of
hospital and clinic walls, we apply the lives of kids and teens in greenspace, the aforementioned Center
these same principles to our work our area. This responsibility for Advanced Pediatrics and support
with the Chamber. is going to increase as our staff offices. As we plan for this pediatric
community continues to healthcare campus that will improve
grow and evolve. Children’s patient outcomes and transform our
has multiple facilities in DeKalb County, community through traffic improvements,
including one of our three inpatient infrastructure updates, and miles of trails
facilities: Egleston Hospital, home to and pedestrian pathways, we are grateful
a number of core pediatric specialties for the support of the Chamber and the
including the Aflac Cancer and Blood DeKalb County government. Here’s to
The Center for Advanced Pediatrics
Disorders Center, cardiac and transplant another 80 years of shared success!

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