Atrium Health

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority
Atrium Health
FormerlyCarolinas HealthCare System Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Company typeNorth Carolina Hospital Authority
IndustryHealth care
FoundedOctober 7, 1940; 84 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)
ParentAdvocate Health
Divisions
Websitewww.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]

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]

  1. ^ Roeder, David (11 May 2022). "Advocate Aurora, Atrium Health systems to merge". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  2. ^ Overstreet, Bryan (2 Dec 2022). "Atrium Health Completes Mega-Merger With Midwestern Hospital Group". WCCB. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  3. ^ "About Us". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  4. ^ Muccigrosso, Catherine (2022-12-02). "Atrium Health completes major deal to double in size, combines with Midwest hospital chain". The Charlotte Observer.
  5. ^ "Specialty Care Services". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  6. ^ Charlene Butterfield and Liz Sweeney (19 April 2013). "Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (Carolinas HealthCare System), North Carolina; Joint Criteria; System" (PDF). Standard & Poor's. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  7. ^ Alexander, Ames (16 June 2012). "Officials: Taxpayers need say on CHS". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.