Emory University Hospital, first founded as Wesley Memorial Hospital with 50 beds in an Atlanta mansion in March 1904, moved to its current site on the Emory University campus in November 1922 with the help of a $1.25 million gift. The hospital was renamed Emory University Hospital in the mid-1930s and today operates more than 700 beds as Emory Healthcare’s flagship academic institution. In 2014, the hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit cared for the first patients treated for Ebola virus in the U.S. In 2017, Emory University Hospital opened a new nine-story tower connected to its historic building by a two-story walking bridge. The hospital is a national leader in cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and solid organ and bone marrow transplant. Emory University Hospital and Children’s Arthur M. Blank Hospital form a combined regional emerging special pathogen treatment center, one of only 13 in the country with specialized training to care for patients with highly contagious infectious diseases. In June 2025, the two hospitals joined more than 50 federal, state, local and international collaborators in “Tranquil Passport,” the largest patient movement exercise in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services history involving patients with a highly contagious infectious disease.
