Piedmont Atlanta Hospital is a 643 bed, non-profit
hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...
located at 1968 Peachtree Road,
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
.
History
Piedmont was established in 1905 as the Piedmont Sanitarium, the successor to Amster's private sanitorium, in the former mansion of
Charles Thomas Swift of
S.S.S. Tonic. The mansion was located at the northwest corner of Capitol and Crumley streets in the then-affluent
Washington-Rawson neighborhood. The name was changed to Piedmont Hospital and eventually the hospital took up an entire square block. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for
Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium
Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, often referred to as Fulton County Stadium and originally named Atlanta Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in the southeastern United States, located in Atlanta. The stadium was home of the Atlanta Braves of the ...
and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large
Center Parc Stadium
Center Parc Stadium (formerly Georgia State Stadium) is an outdoor stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The stadium is the home of the Georgia State University Panthers football team as of the 2017 season, replacing the Georgia Dome which had served a ...
parking lot.
External links
Piedmont Atlanta HospitalPiedmont Mountainside HospitalPiedmont Fayette HospitalPiedmont Newnan HospitalPiedmont Henry HospitalPiedmont Athens Regional HospitalPiedmont Columbus Regional
References
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Hospitals in Atlanta
Hospitals established in 1905
1905 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)