Ours is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) is an integrated health care system that operates 1,238 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers.

WFUBMC has 23 subsidiary or affiliate hospitals and operates more than 100 outreach activities throughout the region including satellite clinics, health fairs, consulting services and medical director services. It provides a continuum of care that includes primary care centers, outpatient rehabilitation, dialysis centers, and home health care.

Although its primary service area is a 26-county region in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, WFUBMC served patients from 97 (of 100) North Carolina counties, 49 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign countries in 2007.

Our 3 Main Components

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) has 932 medical and science faculty members and 549 adjunct and clinical faculty in the community. The school offers the MD, PhD, MS degrees (including an MS for physician assistants) and the joint degrees of MD/MS in Health Sciences Research, the MD/PhD, the MD/MBA, the PhD/MBA, and the MD/Graduate Certificate Program in Spirituality and Health (School of Divinity at WFU). 
• North Carolina Baptist Hospital (NCBH), the Medical Center’s primary clinical arm includes inpatient hospitals, a community health center and primary care centers. Inpatient facilities:
• North Carolina Baptist Hospital, an 872-bed teaching hospital that is the region’s main tertiary referral center.
• Brenner Children’s Hospital, the leading children’s hospital in the region for more than 20 years. In 2002, a 400,000-square-foot tower opened to house this 160-bed “hospital within a hospital” offering services to young patients and their families. It includes a pediatric emergency room, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, infant, child and adolescent inpatient units and outpatient clinics. Children are treated for a variety of illnesses from ear infections to the most advanced pediatric cancer care.
• Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP), comprising the physicians who are the medical school’s board-certified (or equivalent) medical faculty and attending staff of the hospital. WFUP outpatient clinics include about 85 medical and surgical specialties or subspecialties.