Emory University Hospital Midtown (originally Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital, sometimes Crawford Long Hospital or simply Crawford Long, and formerly 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 Emory Healthcare. 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. The 11-story W. W. Orr Doctors' Building opened in 1930. In 1931, the hospital was renamed Crawford W. Long 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, in order to more clearly identify it as part of the university. 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 siteCrawford W. Long Memorial Hospital National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 09/01/1988
Teaching hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state) Hospitals in Atlanta Hospital buildings completed in 1911 1908 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-hospital-stub