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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority
	Aerial view of Carolinas Medical Center, Atrium Health’s flagship hospital and corporate headquarters
Trade name	Atrium Health
Formerly	Carolinas HealthCare System Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Company type	North Carolina Hospital Authority
Industry	Health care
Founded	October 7, 1940; 83 years ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Headquarters	1000 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	Eugene A. Woods (CEO); Julie Ann Frieschlag (Chief Academic Officer); James C. Hunter (Chief Medical Officer);
Services	Health care; Community service;
Revenue	$9.9 billion net operating revenue; $5.8 million uncompensated care; (2019)
Number of employees	~70,000 (2021)
Divisions	Levine Cancer Institute; Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute; Levine Children's Hospital; Neurosciences Institute;
Website	www.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 part of Advocate Health. 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.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

Legally, Atrium Health is The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority,^[4] 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.^[5]

^ "About Us". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
^ Muccigrosso, Catherine (2022-12-02). "Atrium Health completes major deal to double in size, combines with Midwest hospital chain". The Charlotte Observer.
^ "Specialty Care Services". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[1] "About Us". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2022-01-20. Retrieved 2022-01-20.

[Advocate-2] Muccigrosso, Catherine (2022-12-02). "Atrium Health completes major deal to double in size, combines with Midwest hospital chain". The Charlotte Observer.

[3] "Specialty Care Services". Atrium Health. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-25.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

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