Need recommendations on atlanta hospitals(obgyn, maternity)

[johnscd71]

First, congratulations on the new member of your family on the way!

I can't comment on all of the hospitals. But I have a great OB at Women's Health Associates:
https://www.whaatlanta.com/

I've been with them for several years and am high risk. I also have a relative who is a preemie nurse at Northside, so I know their care is top notch - so I'm Team Northside.

[kferq]

Originally Posted by musman

Thanks everyone. Which doctors would u recommend?

My bias is toward the Emory faculty physicians group who do their OB at Emory midtown (Disclosure, I am on the Emory Medical School Faculty). My wife loves her doctor, Eva Lathrop. She did an advanced fellowship and has a great bedside manner.

[tamlym]

Suburban Women's Specialist....2 female docs, but towards the end, they rotate you between them at appointments because you get whoever is on call during your delivery. But I think they only delivery at Emory JC and Gwinnett Med Center...

[LovelySummer]

I delivered at Piedmont right there in Buckhead. It's a very good hospital. There is also Emory (used to be Crawford Long). I know that Northside delivers the most babies but the traffic in the perimeter area alone would scare me. It took me 75 minutes to go 4 miles a month or so ago. Does your wife want to be stuck in that when she is trying to get to the hospital? I eventually made it past Northside hospital during the time that I was stuck in traffic. If she goes into labor anytime between about 3 and 7, she can be basically screwed bc Northside is on a side street and you cannot get to it from a main street (at least not that I know of). I would nix Northside. I did not see any awards given to the hospital when I was researching myself - the only thing I saw was that it delivers more babies than anywhere in the country. That wasn't enough for me. I'd stick with Emory and Piedmont hospitals.

Piedmont also has a level 3 NICU in case you happen to need it (G-D forbid).

Originally Posted by musman

Just found that my wife is pregnant. We currently live in buckhead. and were planning to move to johns creek this winter. now that we have found that she is pregnant. we r reconsidering our decision and not restrict ourselves to johns creek area. However I have heard good things about emory johns creek.
If we stay here we have northside and atlanta medical as two choices.
This is our second pregnancy. first we loved but that was not in atlanta. Just like everyone we wouldn't like to be treated as a number.
Any recommendation of hospital, obgyn would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[trojansarah]

I recommend Dr Charles Wooten at OBGYN of Atlanta. Located near Northside Hospital and has a couple of satellite offices. Good luck and congratulations!