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Children’s highlights new Arthur M. Blank Hospital, rural pediatric scholarships and monthly PANS clinic
Summary
A Children’s Health representative told a legislative committee the system handles heavy pediatric volume, operates state-unique specialty services at the Arthur M. Blank Hospital and is funding rural partnerships and scholar-ships to place pediatric clinicians in underserved counties.
Mr. Smith, a representative of Children’s Health, told a legislative committee that the hospital system treats roughly 245,000 emergency-department visits annually and receives more than 12,000 transfers from other Georgia hospitals each year. “We operate the only pediatric level 1 trauma center in the state,” he said, adding that the system also runs “the only, level 4 NICU in the state.”
Smith said Children’s offers more than 60 specialties, trained 771 residents and fellows who did clinical rotations at Children’s last year, and that roughly 316 of those rotations were pediatric specialties. He described the new Arthur M. Blank Hospital on the North Druid Hills campus as an expansion from about 330 beds at the prior Eggleston facility to 446 beds and a campus…
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