Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is home to more than 11,000 employees and is the largest employer in Forsyth County.

The Medical Center’s primary service area is a 26-county region in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia and provides a continuum of care that includes primary care centers, outpatient rehabilitation, dialysis centers and home health care.

The Medical Center and its component institutions, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Wake Forest University Physicians, have been ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report since 1993.

The School of Medicine ranks among the top third among American medical schools in total funding from the National Institutes of Health.