Today marks the culmination of four-and-a-half years of construction for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s new Arthur M. Blank Hospital and support buildings at North Druid Hills and I-85 in Brookhaven. An armada of employees and equipment is scheduled to transfer pediatric patients between the current Egleston at Emory location and the new, sprawling campus. This effort requires incredible logistics, intermittent traffic interruptions, and massive cooperation from first responders and citizens along the corridor.
The Children’s Egleston campus sits on Clifton Road, across from Emory University Hospital. Roads here are narrow and crowded and the Children’s team has spent months planning this transfer with authorities.
“Children’s has been coordinating with more than 15 state and local agencies,” Linda Matzigkeit, the hospital’s chief administrative officer told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via email. The police departments from Emory University, Brookhaven, Sandy Springs and DeKalb County, along with the Georgia State Patrol, are assisting in this massive transfer.