The new facility has an expanded emergency room, child-friendly beds, sickle cell and asthma specialty clinics and a primary care center for children.
The original hospital was opened in 1952, was shut down in 1989, then reopened by Grady Health System as a children’s hospital in 1991, but Grady’s financial struggles in 2006 led to plans to close Hughes Spalding, which were headed off by a fundraising drive.
Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s report on Hughes Spalding Hospital.
