ATLANTA-EHCA, a joint venture of Emory Healthcare and Nashville-based HCA The Healthcare Company, has filed a certificate of need with the state for a new $93 million hospital. The 120-bed facility would be built on a 30-acre site in North Fulton County, about 30 miles north of Downtown and adjacent to the Johns Creek Technology Center.The four-story, 272,000-sf hospital, to be called Emory Johns Creek, would replace and consolidate the existing 168-bed Emory Dunwoody Medical Center, about 18 miles south of the proposed facility, and the 294-bed West Paces Medical Center, which closed at the end of 1999.
Depending on the length of the approval process, the hospital could open in fall 2003.