Emory University Hospital Midtown (originally Emory Crawford Long Hospital) is a 511-bed

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located in the SoNo district of

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, United States, and affiliated with

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. The hospital's

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is Dan Owens. Emory University Hospital Midtown is staffed by more than 1,000 private-practice and Emory Clinic physicians, spanning 28 specialties including cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, oncology, neurosciences, general and vascular surgery, internal medicine, urology, obstetrics and gynecology. There is a level III neonatal ICU.

History

Emory's Midtown hospital celebrated its 100-year

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in 2008. The institution's history dates back to 1908, when two

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s, Dr. Edward Campbell Davis and a former student of his, Dr. Luther C. Fischer, opened the 26-bed Davis-Fischer Sanatorium on Crew Street, near present-day

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. With just 26 beds, the hospital quickly outgrew its capacity and by 1911, Davis and Fischer moved the hospital to its present site, opening an 85-bed Davis-Fischer Sanatorium on Linden Avenue. In 1931, the hospital was renamed

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Memorial Hospital in honor of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the Georgia physician who discovered sulphuric ether for use as an

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, and was the first doctor to use anesthesia during

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. Emory Crawford Long Hospital was renamed "Emory University Hospital Midtown", effective February 13, 2009. However, as part of Emory's commitment to honor a more than 100-year history of the original name, 'Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital' is retained on exterior

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References

External links

Emory University Hospital MidtownEmory Healthcare Web site
Hospitals in Atlanta Hospital buildings completed in 1911 1908 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-hospital-stub