Atrium Health

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority
Atrium Health
FormerlyCarolinas HealthCare System Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Company typeNorth Carolina Hospital Authority
Industry Health care
FoundedOctober 7, 1940;83 years ago (1940-10-07) in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Headquarters1000 Blythe Blvd,
Charlotte, North Carolina
,
United States
Number of locations
  • 1,400 care locations
  • 40 hospitals
  • 35 emergency departments
  • 32 cancer care locations
  • 3,350+ providers
  • 15,000+ nurses
  • 35 urgent care locations
 (2021)
Area served
 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama
Key people
Services
Revenue
  • $9.9 billion net operating revenue
  • $5.8 million uncompensated care
 (2019)
Number of employees
~70,000 (2021)
Parent Advocate Health
Divisions
Website www.atriumhealth.org

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (doing business as Atrium Health), formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, is a hospital network with more than 70,000 employees and, since its merger with Advocate Aurora Health in 2022, part of Advocate Health. [1] [2] It operates 40 hospitals, 7 freestanding emergency departments, over 30 urgent care centers, and more than 1,400 care locations in the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. [3] [4] It provides care under the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, region, Atrium Health Navicent in the Macon, Georgia area, and Atrium Health Floyd in the Rome, Georgia area. Atrium Health offers pediatric, cancer, and heart care, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. [5]

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Legally, Atrium Health is The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, [6] a municipal hospital authority established under North Carolina's Hospital Authorities Act (North Carolina General Statutes chapter 131E, part 2). The authority is governed by a self-perpetuating board of commissioners which nominates new commissioners to fill its own vacancies; the chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners can approve or veto those nominations but not make nominations of her own. [7]

History

COVID-19 response

Hospitals & facilities

Atrium Health is based in Charlotte. Carolinas Medical Center is the flagship hospital for the entire system (located between Dilworth and Myers Park). Atrium Health operates seven freestanding Emergency Departments, these are 24-hour emergency care centers for the treatment of emergency medical conditions, but are not attached to a full service hospital. Atrium Health also operates 37 urgent care centers across the system's Charlotte NC market.  [15]

On February 23, 2022, Atrium Health Union West Hospital in Stallings is scheduled to open. [16]

Medical education & research

Other facilities

In addition to providing patients with quality health care, Atrium Health operates long-term care facilities in the Charlotte Area. Other facilities of importance include:

Mergers

On February 8, 2018, Atrium Health and Navicent Health of Macon, Georgia announced a partnership. [24]

On December 19, 2018, leaders from Atrium Health and Navicent Health signed the definitive agreement that commits to the organizations’ strategic combination. The agreement was effective January 1, 2019, making Navicent Health the central and south Georgia hub for the Atrium Health network. [25]

On January 29, 2021, the system was renamed Atrium Health Navicent. [26]

Floyd Health System

On November 5, 2019, Atrium Health and Floyd Health System (Floyd) announced that the organizations signed a letter of intent to combine. [27] The agreement was finalized on July 14, 2021. "Atrium Health has pledged to invest $650 million in capital" into Floyd Health System over the next 10 years. [28]

On October 28, 2021, the system was renamed Atrium Health Floyd. [29]

Wake Forest Baptist Health

On October 9, 2020, Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health, including Wake Forest School of Medicine, officially joined as a single enterprise, Atrium Health. [30] The new enterprise became effective immediately.

The strategic combination was first announced in April 2019, [31] with a definitive agreement signed in October 2019, following approval by each entity's governing board.

On October 23, 2020, Atrium Health announced $3.4 billion in planned investments for Wake Forest Baptist Health and the communities it serves over the next 10 years. [32] Atrium Health will invest approximately $2.8 billion to improve facilities and fund critical investments. [33]

On August 18, 2021, the system was renamed Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. [34]

Advocate Aurora

The merger was first announced in May 2022. Advocate Aurora operates in Illinois and Wisconsin. The combined company will operate in six states Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. It will have 67 hospitals and 150,000 employees with $27 billion in annual revenue. It will be the fifth largest hospital system in the country. The combined organization would be called Advocate Health and be headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Initially both Gene Woods, CEO of Atrium, and Jim Skogsbergh, CEO of Advocate Aurora will be co-CEOs for a year and a half until Skogsbergh then Woods will be the sole CEO. [35]

The deal will not affect Atrium's new medical school Wake Forest School of Medicine and the medical innovation district The Pearl. The medical school will be the academic core of the newly combined company. Currently Advocate does have partnerships with nearby medical schools and supports research. However, they do not have their own medical school or innovation district. [35] Dr Julie Ann Freischlag, CEO of AHWFB, chief academic officer of Atrium Health and dean of the WFU School of Medicine said this about the merger's impact on the medical school “We’re really excited that the way this is set up. We’ll be a part of a bigger group, so I think if anything, people will know more who we are, and we’ll be able to touch more people and tell them about the research and education — the wonderful things we do.” Freischlag stated completing clinical trials and finding new treatment approaches will be easier with a larger patient population. [36]

The deal faced a number of approval hurdles. The North Carolina Attorney General stated he would not oppose the deal, the Federal Trade Commission reviewed the merger, the deal was subject to Illinois and Wisconsin approval since Advocate Aurora is based in both states. [37] The deal was temporarily blocked by Illinois health board and then decided to postpone the vote. During a special meeting on November 14, 2022, the board voted 6–0 to approve the deal. [38] The merger was completed on December 2, 2022. [37] [12]

Controversy

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