Charlotte-based Atrium Health is seeking to build its first hospital in Metro Atlanta.

Atrium is proposing to build an acute care general teaching hospital on a 40-acre campus in Fulton County, according to a filing with the Georgia Department of Community Health, first reported by Axios.

The proposed facility would help provide care to underserved patients who previously went to WellStar Atlanta Medical Center and its affiliate WellStar AMC South, which both closed in 2022, according to the filing.

The hospital would include an emergency department and could provide other services, such as perinatal and neonatal care, diagnostic imaging and surgeries. It would start out with 50 beds and be affiliated with the Morehouse School of Medicine, Axios reported.

Atrium, which is part of Advocate Health, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The proposed hospital would anchor a mixed-use campus at 675 Metropolitan Parkway SW that is intended to include office, retail, residential and medical facilities. It would be located about half a mile from Morehouse School of Medicine’s main campus.

Atrium bought the 40-acre campus near the West End MARTA Station in 2024. It hadn’t previously revealed its plans for the land — home to MET Atlanta, a 1.1M SF historic warehouse — since the purchase. But one city council member predicted at the time that it would mean a new hospital for Atlanta.

In May, city officials unveiled that Atlanta was teaming up with Morehouse and a nonprofit health system to build an $800M hospital, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. The officials didn’t disclose the nonprofit or where the hospital would be located. 

Atrium Health has two other health facilities in Georgia: Atrium Health Navicent in Macon and Atrium Health Floyd in Rome, according to Atlanta News First.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB) is kicking off a Greensboro medical campus by building a $163 million medical office building.

Construction is underway on the Winston-Salem health system’s first project on its property at 2909 Horse Pen Creek Road will be a 134,000-square-foot, five-story medical office building.

It’s expected to include a medical office building, surgery center and cancer center. A $30 million ambulatory surgery center will be housed in the building. Expected to open in 2026, the facility will also include a cancer center and specialty clinics in cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery and orthopaedics and offer services such as imaging, pharmacy and physical therapy.

The hospital opening date is projected in January 2029.

Atrium Health is installing equipment into its new hospital in Cornelius and expects to begin accepting patients summer of 2025. Atrium Health Lake Norman will include an intensive care unit, operating rooms, a full-time emergency department and maternity services, among other operations.

Atrium Health Lake Norman’s first phase will include the 38-bed, 170,000-square-foot hospital and a 72,000-square-foot medical office building. The hospital will employ over 282 people. The Charlotte Business Journal reports the $255 million project is expected to be followed by surrounding mixed-use development.

The hospital is being built on around 36 acres of the nearly 100 acres the company owns at Westmoreland Road and US Highway 21. Atrium will work with development partners for a mix of uses on the rest of the site.

The Charlotte healthcare provider is planning an eventual second phase there with another medical office building and an additional hospital wing as well.