Egleston Files State Application For Proposed Children’s Hospital In Brookhaven

Egleston Children’s Hospital, a subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, filed a state application Monday for its proposed hospital in the Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven.

The $1.5 billion project for the North Druid Hills campus would be the largest hospital construction plan, in terms of cost, in the history of the Georgia certificate-of-need (CON) program, experts say. The application was preceded by a letter of intent to state regulators.

The Children’s plan to build a 446-bed pediatric hospital would include relocating beds and services from the current Egleston hospital, on Clifton Road in Atlanta. Health system officials said that visits to Children’s, including Egleston, are increasing faster than overall population growth, spurring the need for additional beds.