Piedmont Hospital
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Piedmont Hospital is a major hospital
Hospital
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 at 2002 Peachtree Road
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 at Collier Road in the Buckhead
Buckhead (Atlanta)
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 area of Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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Washington Street location

Piedmont was established in 1905 as the Piedmont Sanitarium, the successor to Amster's private sanitorium, in the former mansion of Charles Thomas Swift
Charles Thomas Swift
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 of S.S.S. Tonic. The mansion was located at the northwest corner of Capitol and Crumley streets in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson
Washington-Rawson
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 neighborhood. The name was changed to Piedmont Hospital and eventually the hospital took up an entire square block. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots; now the site is part of the large Turner Field
Turner Field
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 parking lot.

Present location

The current location of the hospital was once the "Deerland Park" estate, which the hospital bought from the Spalding family in 1943; ground was broken in 1954.

Piedmont Hospital was mentioned by Newt Gingrich in the congressional newspaper The Hill
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in December 2006. Mr. Gingrich indicated that both Piedmont Hospital and PeaceHealth of Eugene, Oregon had the two best "digital" healthcare information systems in the United States.

Three other hospitals in and near metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta
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 were affiliate
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d with and are owned by Piedmont Healthcare. The 35-bed Mountainside Medical Center, renamed Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in June 2004, is located along Georgia 515 near Jasper, Georgia
Jasper, Georgia
Jasper is a city in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,684 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Pickens County...

. The 100-bed Fayette Community Hospital opened in Fayetteville, Georgia
Fayetteville, Georgia
Fayetteville is a town in Fayette County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 15,945. The city is the county seat of Fayette County. Fayetteville is located approximately 22 miles from the city of Atlanta....

 in September 1997, and became Piedmont Fayette Hospital in November 2004. Piedmont agreed to buy 143-bed Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Georgia
Newnan, Georgia
Newnan is a city in Coweta County, Georgia, about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta. The population was 16,242 at the 2000 Census. Newnan is one of the fastest growing cities in Georgia, with an estimated population of 27,097 in 2006 and 33,293 in July 2008...

 in January 2006, and finalized the deal in May 2006, making it Piedmont Newnan Hospital
Piedmont Newnan Hospital
Piedmont Newnan Hospital is a 143-bed, acute-care hospital in Newnan, Georgia, offering 24-hour emergency services, women’s services and general medical/surgical services. Diagnostic services include CT, nuclear medicine, MRI, PET, ultrasound and fluoroscopy...

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