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WellStar Health System
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| Address: |
805 Sandy Plains Road
Marietta
GA
United States
30066 |
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| Phone Number: |
770.792.7600 |
| Website: |
http://www.wellstar.org/ |
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| Ownership: |
Private |
Company Overview: |
| Every time we treat, heal and encourage a patient toward wellness, we achieve our mission and realize our vision: To deliver world-class healthcare. To deliver world-class healthcare for a community exceeding 600,000 people, WellStar is more than 11,000 strong to meet the heath demands and needs of our communities. To deliver world class healthcare we equip our healthcare facilities and employees with the best technology, resources and education available. To deliver world class healthcare we keep seeking ways to improve the way we deliver care knowing each day holds more miracles, more life, more chances, more compassion, and more opportunities. WellStar’s senior leadership, Board of Trustees and Regional Health Boards constantly evaluate community healthcare needs and consider demographics, physician resources and advancements in technology to develop new services and facilities. For more than half a century and three generations, WellStar has grown to a network securing grants and partnerships for research, training, and development . WellStar has received accolades by some of healthcare’s top organizations such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). In 2002, WellStar accepted the nations first certification for the management of multiple chronic diseases from JCAHO, the nation’s predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare. WellStar also is a destination for hospital planners and healthcare industry experts from around the world to observe family-centered healthcare in action in WellStar’s celebrated maternity/neonatal intensive care units. |
Products and Services: |
The following designations are by-products of the hard work and dedication to the WellStar vision "to deliver world class healthcare” to the communities we serve.
SYSTEM-WIDE SENIOR LEADERSHIP
BARIATRICS
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
CANCER PROGRAM
CARDIAC SERVICES
DIABETES PROGRAM
EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT EMERGENCY SERVICES
FITNESS
HOSPICE
MEDICAL IMAGING
MINIMALLY INVASIVE SERVICES
NURSING
PHYSICIANS GROUP
REHABILITATION SERVICES
SLEEP DISORDERS CENTER
SURGICAL SERVICES
WOMEN'S SERVICES & RESOURCES |
Key Personnel Facts: |
| : WellStar was named one of the nation’s “Top 100 Integrated Health Networks” are Network” list by Modern Healthcare magazine and Verispan, a leading healthcare industry informatics organization, making it the highest-rankedGeorgia health system. The survey rates integration, integrated technology, contractual capabilities, outpatient utilization, financial stability, services and access, hospital utilization, and physicians. WellStar is the first American integrated healthcare network for multiple diseases to be awarded certification from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). WellStar was named one of “Atlanta’s Top 25 Employers” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. WellStar was named “Top Companies for Atlanta Women in 2006” by Atlanta Woman magazine. WellStar is one of 42 health systems in the United States accredited as a healthcare system by JCAHO. WellStar is home to one of the nation’s largest community-based medical research programs. Only health system in Georgia with two facilities named "Top 100 Hospitals" in the nation: WellStar Kennestone Hospital (five times, fourth consecutive year) and WellStar Douglas Hospital (third consecutive year). WellStar Douglas Hospital named "five star" hospital by Cleverley & Associates - a recognition as one of the top-ranked Community Value hospitals in the U.S. The Community Value Index is a proprietary index created to offer a measure of the value that a hospital provides to its community based on the cost and quality of the services provided. WellStar Cobb Hospital named one of the nation's "Top 100" ranked Community Value hospitals by Cleverley & Associates. WellStar's more than 11,000 employees comprise Georgia's largest not-for-profit healthcare system. Named by Modern Healthcare as a Top 100 Integrated Healthcare Network in 2002. WellStar Physicians Group is the largest non-academic medical group in Georgia with more than 275 primary care providers, specialists and advanced practitioners. Also, more than 1,000 affiliated physicians practice within WellStar. WellStar Cobb, WellStar Douglas, WellStar Kennestone, and WellStar Paulding hospitals received the American Association for Respiratory Care's (AARC) "Quality Respiratory Care Recognition." The LTAC at WellStar Windy Hill Hospital received the "LTAC Quality Respiratory Care Recognition." Named the Douglas Chamber of Commerce's "Industry of the Year" for 2006. Named Leadership Douglas' "Business of the Year" for 2006. Accredited by the College of American Pathology. |
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