Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children

Children's at Egleston
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta,
Geography
Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Coordinates 33°47′39″N 84°19′13″W / 33.7941°N 84.3203°W / 33.7941; -84.3203Coordinates: 33°47′39″N 84°19′13″W / 33.7941°N 84.3203°W / 33.7941; -84.3203
Organization
Funding Non-profit hospital
Hospital type General
Affiliated university Emory University School of Medicine,
Network Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Services
Helipad Yes
History
Founded 1928
Links
Website http://www.choa.org
Lists Hospitals in the United States

In 1928, Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children opened in the Old Fourth Ward east of downtown Atlanta at 640 Forrest Road (now Ralph McGill Blvd.). It opened with the financial support of Thomas R. Egleston Jr. In the first year the 52-bed facility was open, 605 children were treated.

History

The original hospital site was on the north side of Forrest Rd. (now Ralph McGill Blvd.) on the east side of Fortune St. (today Wabash Ave.).[1] Today the AMLI Parkside apartments occupy the site.

The hospital contained the original Dolly Blalock Black Memorial Garden,[2] dedicated to Elizabeth "Dolly" Blalock, wife of Eugene R. Black, Sr., president of the World Bank.

In the 1950s Egleston became the pediatric teaching hospital affiliate for the Emory University School of Medicine, and in 1959 relocated to the university's campus.

In 1959 the Atlanta Housing Authority purchased the Forrest Road site and planned a 350-unit complex there, which Black groups had argued for to relieve overcrowding in the Sweet Auburn area to the west. White homeowners complained that this would mean Black encroachment eastwards, and so City Council aldermen refused rezone the site, offering instead to clean up the Buttermilk Bottom slum.[3]

In 1987 the hospital opens a medical-psychiatric unit. Today the unit is one of only six university affiliated units especially for children in the United States.

The hospital is now a part of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

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