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About Northside Hospital


Voted Atlanta's Most Preferred Care*

Our History
On June 27, 1970, Northside Hospital opened its doors, with 250 beds, a 24-hour emergency department, 80 physicians and more than 400 other professionals.  

Today
Northside Hospital is a 537-bed, not-for-profit, full-service community hospital.
With more than 2,000 physicians (the largest medical staff in the Southeast) and 5,000 employees, we realize nearly 700,000 patient visits annually.
Northside has been voted Atlanta's Most Preferred Hospital in Overall Healthcare Services by consumers in the National Research Corporation's Healthcare Market Guide Study every year since 1997. *

Specialties and Services
  • The Women's Services program is dedicated to caring for a woman's health throughout her life. In addition to advanced obstetrical and gynecological care, Northside Hospital features a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the latest in breast cancer treatment and community education programs.
  • Northside Hospital is the leader in maternity and newborn services, delivering more babies than any other hospital in the United States (more than 17,000 deliveries in 2008).
  • Specialists at Northside Hospital perform more surgeries than at any other hospital in Georgia, more than 35,000 a year.
  • Specialists at Northside also perform more laparoscopic robotic prostatectomies than any other hospital in Georgia and Northside ranks in the top 5 percent of all GYN robotic surgery programs (10 percent for robotic procedures in general) in the country.
  • More newly diagnosed cases of cancer are treated at Northside Hospital each year than at any other community hospital in Georgia.
  • At Northside Hospital, more cases of breast and gynecological cancer are diagnosed and treated than at any other community hospital in Georgia.
As a complete medical center, Northside Hospital offers comprehensive:
  • Cancer Care Program
  • Surgical Services
  • Robotic Surgery Program
  • Surgery
  • Gynecology
  • Maternity & Newborn Services
  • Radiology (Imaging)
  • Emergency Services
  • Spine Care
  • Heart Health
  • Nutrition & Weight Management
  • Diabetes Education
  • Urology
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Clinical Trials
  • Gastroenterology
  • Neurology
  • Pain Treatment
  • Rehabilitation Services
  • Specialty Medicine
In 2008, the hospital completed renovations and expansions to ambulatory surgical recovery and a new 28-bed, state-of-the-art adult ICU.
  
* Atlanta's Most Preferred Hospital in Overall Healthcare Services - 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 by National Research Corporation.

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