Atrium Health

Atrium Health comprises the following hospitals:

Known as Atrium Health Urgent Care, it is a system of 33 urgent care centers in the Charlotte metropolitan area. While a few are 24 hours, most are open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week (except Thanksgiving and Christmas).[6]

• Levine Children's Urgent Care - Blakeney (located in the Ballantyne neighborhood, south Charlotte)
• Levine Children's Urgent Care - Cotswold (located in the Cotswold neighborhood, central Charlotte)
• Levine Children's Urgent Care - Union (located in Monroe)
• Urgent Care - Albemarle (located in Albemarle)
• Urgent Care - Arboretum (located in south Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Ballantyne (located in the Ballantyne neighborhood, south Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Belmont (located in Belmont)
• Urgent Care - Blue Ridge (Located in Morganton)
• Urgent Care - Cabarrus (located in Concord)
• Urgent Care - Davidson (located in Davidson)
• Urgent Care - East Lincoln (located in Denver)
• Urgent Care - Eastland (located in East Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Fort Mill (located in Fort Mill, SC)
• Urgent Care - Gastonia (located in Gastonia)
• Urgent Care - Huntersville (located in Huntersville)
• Urgent Care - Lincolnton (located in Lincolnton)
• Urgent Care - Matthews (located in Matthews)
• Urgent Care - Mint Hill (located in Mint Hill)
• Urgent Care - Monroe (located in Monroe)
• Urgent Care - Mooresville
• Urgent Care - Morehead (Open 24 Hours) (Located on the campus of Carolinas Medical Center)
• Urgent Care - Mountain Island (located in Northwest Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Prosperity Crossing (located in North Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Rea Farms
• Urgent Care - Robinwood (located in Gastonia)
• Urgent Care - Rock Hill (located in Rock Hill, SC)
• Urgent Care - Rutherford
• Urgent Care - Salisbury
• Urgent Care - Shelby
• Urgent Care - SouthPark (located in the SouthPark neighborhood, central Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Steele Creek (located in the Steele Creek neighborhood, southwest Charlotte)
• Urgent Care - Union West (Open 24 Hours) (located in Indian Trail)
• Urgent Care - University City

Atrium Health operates a rehabilitation facility on the main campus of Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte called Carolinas Rehabilitation - Charlotte. Other Rehabilitation facilities include:

• Carolinas Rehabilitation - Northeast
• Carolinas Rehabilitation - Mount Holly (located in Mount Holly)
• Carolinas Rehabilitation - Pineville
• Roper Rehabilitation Hospital (located at Roper Hospital Campus in Charleston)

Atrium Health operates a 66-bed inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facility, as well as a behavioral health emergency department, on Billingsley Road in Charlotte. They also operate a new state of the art inpatient/outpatient facility in Davidson, North Carolina. Outpatient services include dual diagnosis treatment, child, adolescent and adult Partial Hospitalization Programs.

In addition to providing patients with quality health care, Atrium Health operates long-term care facilities in the Charlotte Area. Other facilities of importance include:

• Cabarrus College of Health Sciences (Education Facility, located on NE campus in Concord)
• James G. Cannon Research Center (Research Facility, located on CMC campus in Dilworth)
• Carolinas College of Health Sciences (Education Facility, located on CMC campus in Dilworth)
• Carolinas Physician Network (Network of Physician Offices in North and South Carolina)
• Crawley Memorial Hospital (Defunct) - a Long-term acute care facility located in Boiling Springs
• Mercy School of Nursing (Defunct) (Education Facility, located in southwest Charlotte) [7]
• Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is a cardiovascular practice in Charlotte, North Carolina.[8] It is the region's only clinic to offer minimally invasive heart bypass option and heart transplant center. Sanger includes more than 175 providers and 20 care centers across the Carolinas. Founded in 1956 by Paul Sanger and Dr. Francis Robicsek,[9][10]

On February 8, 2018, Atrium Health, which had changed its name a day earlier, and Navicent Health of Georgia announced a partnership.[11]

On December 19, leaders from Atrium Health and Navicent Health signed the definitive agreement that commits to the organizations’ strategic combination. The agreement was effective January 1, 2019, making Navicent Health the central and south Georgia hub for the Atrium Health network.[12]

On April, 2016, Carolinas HealthCare System appointed Eugene A. Woods president and CEO. Mr. Woods was formerly president and COO of Irving, Texas-based CHRISTUS Health. Mr. Woods earned a bachelor's degree in health planning and administration, a master's degree in business administration and a master's degree in health administration from State College-based Pennsylvania State University.

In 2018, it was reported by Atrium Health (Formerly Carolina Health System) CEO Gene Woods made $5.4 million in total compensation for calendar year 2017, his first full year leading the Charlotte-based hospital system. The figure includes a salary of $1.6 million and a bonus of more than $3 million for 2017.

On April 10, 2019, Atrium and Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina signed a memorandum of understanding as the first step toward a partnership. On October 31 the companies said an agreement had been reached and, pending regulatory approval, the partnership would be completed March 31, 2020. A medical school in Charlotte could be built by 2021 or 2022.[13]

• On June 9, 2016, it was reported that the U.S. Justice Department and the N.C. Attorney General's office filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Carolinas HealthCare System, alleging the chain illegally reduces competition in the local health care market. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article82726402.html#storylink=cpy
• March 30, 2017, a North Carolina federal judge found that DOJ's lawsuit targeting CHS's direct and indirect anti-steering provisions preventing insurers from steering patients to lower-cost providers allegation a plausible antitrust violation, and should continue to discovery.
• On July 3, 2017 it was reported that Carolina's Healthcare System had agreed to pay a $6.5 million False Claims Act settlement to settle charges over its billing practices brought by a whistle blower, U.S. Attorney Jill Rose said Friday. Prosecutors contended the Charlotte-based hospital system had been improperly “up-coding” claims for urine drug tests in order to receive much higher payments than CHS would have if billed properly. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article159156729.html#storylink=cpy
• On September 12, 2017, Three female pediatricians working at Carolinas HealthCare System filed a lawsuit alleging that CHS paid them substantially less than a male counterpart on the basis of their gender. The three physicians raised concerns about pay to supervisors but neither CMHA nor Carolinas took any action, according to the suit.“CHS and its affiliates, including CMHA, have engaged in a pattern and practice of paying its female physicians less than its male physicians,” according to the lawsuit. “This case represents a flagrant example of CMHA’S and CHS’ unlawful pay practices.”
• On January 23, 2018, it was reported that Carolina's Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., failed to comply with Medicare billing requirements for 83 of 240 inpatient claims reviewed by HHS' Office of Inspector General, according to a recent OIG report.
• February of 2018, a Class Action Antitrust Lawsuit was filed on Carolinas Healthcare System that potentially involves tens of thousands of patients who have stayed overnight in a Carolinas HealthCare System hospital over the past four years and reads in part: "As a direct result of CHS's anti-competitive conduct, inpatient consumers are forced to pay above-competitive prices for co-insurance and other direct payments to CHS."
• In February 2018, 12 Pediatricians, or 9% of CHS Charlotte regional pediatric physician staff, refused to sign new Carolina Health System/Atrium Health Employment contracts, stating those contracts offered were significant pay reductions over the prior year. Those physicians chose to leave their employment with CHS rather than accept the new pay reduction.
• On April 2, 2018, a group of more than 90 physicians with Atrium Health subsidiary Mecklenburg Medical Group filed a lawsuit against the Charlotte-based health-care system in an effort to separate into an independent practice. The lawsuit filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court alleges Atrium's "self-serving monopolistic and anti competitive actions" present a threat of those doctors from providing "high quality, cost-effective" care to their thousands of patients. On April 25, 2018, Atrium formally released the physicians from their non-competes, allowing them to form their own practice. Subsequently, on July 26, 2018, the lawsuit was dropped
• On February 13, 2020, security guards at Atrium Health Lincolnton and the Lincoln County Sheriffs Department received media attention were involved in an incident where a sixteen year old boy brought to the hospital's emergency room by his mother, was pushed, tazed and tackled to the pavement from behind by Atrium Health guards. When another pair of sheriff's deputies arrived, video shows a deputy hitting the now handcuffed boy, in the face twice as the boy spit blood pooling in his mouth. The deputy then aggressively approached the mother, yelling at her before being pulled to the ground by a second deputy, In an interview with WBTV, Sheriff Bill Beam defended his deputies saying they did nothing wrong and denying that the officer struck the boy in the face. They boy was arrested and charged with felony assault on a police officer.[14]

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