Not all of the benefits of Emory can be measured in dollars. As the health care provider of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory Healthcare consistently rates as one of the nation’s best. In July 2000 Emory Hospital earned a place in eight of the seventeen medical specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s best hospitals.

In fact, Emory was the only hospital in the Southeast to be ranked in the Top 10 in cardiology. Emory Healthcare offers a comprehensive health care system—from prenatal and neonatal care to care of the aging—through The Emory Clinic, Emory Children’s Center, Emory University Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital, Wesley Woods Center, and Emory-Adventist Hospital.

In 1999, 42,000 patients sought their hospital care at Emory Hospitals. Atlantans and others willing to travel considerable distances for Emory’s quality health care made approximately one million patient visits to Emory’s hospitals, clinics, and emergency rooms.

Emory also reaches patients through long-standing relationships with Grady Memorial Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. While the economic impacts of these affiliate institutions are not included in this study, Emory faculty, residents, interns, and students provide the majority of the health care to their patients. The total of Emory’s care through its own facilities and those of its affiliates amounted to more than 400,000 emergency room visits, more than 2.4 million outpatient visits, and more than 114,000 admissions.

Emory is also contributing new knowledge and improving the prestige of Atlanta through its intensive research agenda. In 1999 Emory received $217 million in research funding. The School of Medicine is ranked nineteenth among medical schools for its level of research funding; the Rollins School of Public Health is among the Top 10 public health schools. Scientists at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center are pioneering vaccines for AIDS and malaria and new treatments for vision loss and cardiovascular disease. EmTech Biosciences, an incubator partnership formed by Emory, Georgia Tech, the Georgia Research Alliance, and the Advanced Technology Development Center, will nurture promising early-stage medical and related technologies.

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