Atrium Health

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 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. 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.

Legally, Atrium Health is The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, 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.

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