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Campuses
Medical Campuses
Emory University Hospital, Grady, Crawford Long, and Wesley Woods
On February 14, 1854, the General Assembly of Georgia granted a charter for the Atlanta Medical College. The first building was erected on the future site of Grady Hospital in 1856. On November 21, 1878, a rival institution, the Southern Medical College was chartered, and in 1898, the two institutions were merged as the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons.
[At the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century] the American Medical Association was putting all possible pressure on private medical schools to form mergers with universities, and when it was announced that Emory University was to be located in Atlanta, a committee of Atlanta Medical conferred with officials of the new institution to propose a union. On May 24, 1915, the trustees of Atlanta Medical College conveyed the school to Emory University.
It was not until 1917…that the preclinical years of medical instruction were moved to the Druid Hills campus. Five years later, a new hospital—Emory University Hospital—also opened its doors on the Druid Hills campus. [Meanwhile, in 1921, in what is now downtown], the Atlanta Medical College buildings and the J. J. Gray Clinic were turned over to the City of Atlanta for use as a hospital for African-Americans in the segregated city], and that division of Grady Hospital became a teaching facility for the Emory School of Medicine. In 1931 the remaining wards at Grady were opened to the Medical School, a move substantially improving the quality of medical care available to patients.
In 1953, the University took over the operation of Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital, which had been deeded to Emory earlier. The same year, the Emory Clinic was organized, making it possible for Emory physicians to engage in private practice while giving a large part of their time to teaching and research.
Through the years, the medical school has found partners in and outside of Emory to strengthen its efforts in medical education, biomedical research, and patient care. These partners have included Wesley Woods (now part of Emory), the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston (formerly Egleston Scottish Rite Children’s Healthcare System).
Sources. English, Thomas H. Emory University 1915-1965. A Semicentennial History, pp 79 and 148.
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