Emory Healthcare, part of Emory University, is the most extensive health care system in Georgia. We are made up of 11 hospitals, the Emory Clinic, and more than 250 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 2,800 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.
Emory Healthcare is an integrated academic healthcare system committed to providing the best care for our patients, educating health professionals and leaders for the future, pursuing discovery research in all of its forms, including basic, clinical, and population-based research, and serving our community. As the clinical enterprise of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University, Emory Healthcare is dedicated to the unifying core purpose, core values, and strategic direction of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center.
We exemplify excellence, innovation and collaboration.We treat everyone with respect, caring, and compassion.We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion.We steward our resources responsibly to optimize value.We serve with integrity.
Emory University in Atlanta is one of the world's leading centers for education and research. It has 150 years of medical education experience and is home to a vibrant community of students, faculty, and staff. About 14,000 students learn at Emory University each year. The university includes nine undergraduate and professional schools and Georgia's most extensive health care system and research base. Our academic programs educate clinicians and scientists who advance health care in Georgia and around the world.
Emory is one of the largest private employers in Atlanta, with more than 24,000 employees. We work to improve the quality of life throughout Georgia through partnerships with Grady Memorial Hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and other organizations.
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center teaches health science students, including nurses, doctors, and public health officials. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center excels in health research, including forward-thinking cancer research. Patients at the Center benefit from Emory's medical expertise, along with family-centered, compassionate care.
Several administrative offices have moved from Decatur Plaza and Irvin Court locations to Emory Healthcares new administration building at Northlake Mall. The following departments are located at 2201 Henderson Mill Rd., Atlanta, GA 30345.
Our mission, 'To Serve Humanity by Improving Health,' defines our core purpose and why we exist. This drives our promise of quality service to the community we serve, and our Care Transformation Model is fundamental to delivering on that promise. This model is an approach to transforming care that aims to redefine and continuously improve the experience of our patients, their families, visitors, and staff.
'Patient- and Family-Centered Care is doing things with patients and their family members instead of doing things to and for patients and their families.' Susan Grant, Emory Healthcare 's Chief Nursing Executive
Dignity and Respect Health care practitioners listen to and honor patient and family perspectives and choices. Patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds are incorporated into the planning and delivery of care.
Information Sharing Health care practitioners communicate and share complete and unbiased information with patients and families in ways that are affirming and useful. Patients and families receive timely, complete, and accurate information in order to effectively participate in care and decision-making.
Collaboration Patients, families, health care practitioners, and health care leaders collaborate in policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation; in facility design; and in professional education, as well as in the delivery of care.
Emory Healthcare's vision, to be recognized as the leading health care system in Atlanta and the Southeast, differentiated by discovery, innovation, and compassionate, patient-focused care, cannot be accomplished without full engagement from every member of our Emory Healthcare community. Together, we must ensure Emory Healthcare offers an environment that is inclusive and sensitive to the needs of our patients, families and our employees and provider teams without regard to race, color, gender, religion or sexual/gender orientations and expressions. By fostering a culture that embraces diversity and cultural competence, Emory Healthcare will dramatically improve the care we offer while further enhancing our commitment to our employees and provider teams.
Respect and Dignity We recognize and honor differences between ourselves, patients, families and our co-workers. We accept and understand differences in customs, values, beliefs, ethnicity, and patterns of thinking of our employees, provider teams, and patient population; as they relate to race, gender, age, class, sexuality, culture, nationality, disability, religion, and region.
Inclusion We encourage and compel the inclusion of diverse patients, families, employees and provider teams in policy and program development. We strive to provide equal opportunity for all, removing institutional barriers of exclusion and taking affirmative measures to include persons who might otherwise be excluded.
Collaboration We are sensitive to and knowledgeable about the diverse needs of our patients, families, employees and provider teams. We will enhance the delivery of care by being perceptive of the needs of our patients and families across social and cultural dimensions.
Celebration Integration of cultural competency and diversity leads to a positive work environment by fostering an atmosphere that recognizes and appreciates the differences in peoples, cultures, and beliefs. We will acknowledge and embrace these differences.
In embracing the concept of a fair and just culture, Emory Healthcare leadership is embracing an opportunity to bring our core values into expression and to help us keep our promise to our patients. We know that in order for staff, physicians and leaders to have the greatest impact on patient care and achieve the highest level of excellence possible, they must feel compelled and supported to speak about problems, errors, conflicts and misunderstandings in an environment where to do so with curiosity, honesty and respect is both a shared goal and a shared responsibility.