Northside Hospital in Sandy Springs is a 537-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving North Metro Atlanta and has one of the largest medical staffs in the Southeast, with more than 1,800 physicians and 5,000 employees. While primarily known for its expertise in women's services, Northside Hospital provides comprehensive cancer care, cardiology and other medical specialties, emergency services, surgical services, outpatient treatment and behavioral services. Northside is dedicated to delivering optimum patient care and achieves this goal by embracing technological advances, striving for clinical excellence and never forgetting that every patient deserves to be treated with respect and compassion.

Consumers ranked Northside #1 in Atlanta for Highest Patient Safety, Outpatient Surgery, Bariatric Surgery and Plastic Surgery by the National Research Corporation's (NRC) 2008/09 Healthcare Market Guide Study.

As pioneers of endoscopic surgery, for more than three decades, Northside Hospital surgeons have offered the latest technology to deliver minimally invasive surgeries to patients. The hospital's surgeons were among the first in the United States to pioneer video laparoscopy, a technique that dramatically reduces the recovery time for many operations including appendectomy, gallbladder removal, incontinence and gynecological procedures.

Physicians at Northside were among the first in Georgia to perform robotic surgery in 2005 and now train other physicians from across the country on how to use this state-of-the-art technology.