BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is undertaking a massive move today.
Their new facility, the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital, opened at 7 a.m. and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Egleston Hospital officially closed.
At 7:30 a.m., ambulances carrying hundreds of patients began taking all of the patients from the old hospital to the new one.
Just after 7 p.m., officials said they fully moved in all of their patients.
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“We have planned that day literally minute by minute,” Chief Nursing Officer Linda Cole said of the move.
The move is being orchestrated by 1,200 team members and another 1,000 support staff volunteers to help with patient and family needs.
They moved 202 patients from Egleston Hospital near Emory University to the new Arthur M. Blank Hospital on North Druid Hills Road.
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Using 65 ambulances, the move should take 10 to 12 hours.
“We will have ambulances coming in from all our neighboring states, so truly been a lot of community involvement to make sure we can do this safely,” Cole said.
The nearly four-mile route from Egleston will go out to Clairmont Road to the I-85 frontage road.
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