Piedmont Healthcare Inc. is a private, not-for-profit health system serving communities across Georgia. Founded in 1905 as a ten-bed sanatorium on the corner of Capitol Avenue and Crumley Street in downtown Atlanta, the organisation has operated for more than a century and now employs nearly 50,000 people, caring for some 4.5 million patients.
Its operating footprint comprises 2,171 locations in total. These include 27 acute care hospitals under the Piedmont Hospitals name, 75 Piedmont Urgent Care centres and 25 Piedmont QuickCare convenience care sites, alongside other facilities across the state. The stated aim is to deliver safe, high-quality, cost-effective care close to home.
Technical work at Piedmont sits within healthcare delivery and medical technologies and advances. The system describes itself as embracing modern medical advances and technologies and as responsive to the changing needs of the communities it serves, with a founding commitment to community care and a focus on patient-centred excellence.
Piedmont Healthcare is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and operates throughout the state.
