About the Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC), one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers, is an integrated health care system that operates 1,154 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers. The Medical Center has 20 subsidiary or affiliate hospitals and operates more than 100 outreach activities throughout the region, including satellite clinics, health fairs and consulting services. It provides a continuum of care that includes primary care centers, outpatient rehabilitation, dialysis centers, home health care and long-term nursing centers.
Although its primary service area is a 26-county region in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, the Medical Center in the past year has served patients from 98 (of 100) North Carolina counties, all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and several foreign countries. The Medical Center’s component institutions carry out a joint mission of patient care, education, research and community service.
The Medical Center’s three main components are Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which includes the School of Medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP). Under a new structure implemented in 2007, the Medical Center will be led by a single CEO who reports to the primary governing board, the Medical Center Board of Directors. The presidents of Health Sciences, Baptist Hospital and WFUP will all report to the Medical Center CEO. At the time of this publication, the nationwide search for a CEO was under way. For academic purposes, the Health Sciences president also reports to the president of Wake Forest University. Both Baptist Hospital and Health Sciences will retain their respective boards, which will both have representation on the Medical Center Board.
Wake Forest University Health Sciences encompasses the School of Medicine and its academic and research missions, 13 dialysis centers, Piedmont Triad Research Park and three new buildings and a parking deck in the Park.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) has 881 medical and science faculty members and 534 adjunct and clinical faculty in the community. The school offers the M.D., Ph.D., M.S. degrees (including an M.S. for physician assistants) and the joint degrees of M.D./Ph.D., M.D./M.B.A., M.D./M.S., and M.D./M.A.
North Carolina Baptist Hospital (NCBH) is the Medical Center’s primary clinical arm, including inpatient hospitals, a community health center, primary care centers and a skilled nursing facility. Inpatient facilities are:
- North Carolina Baptist Hospital , an 872-bed teaching hospital that is the region’s main tertiary referral center.
- Brenner Children’s Hospital & Health Services, the only multi-specialty group practice and pediatric hospital in western North Carolina. A 400,000-square-foot tower opened in 2002 to house this 160-bed "hospital within a hospital" offering services to young patients. It includes a pediatric emergency room, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, infant, child and adolescent inpatient units and outpatient clinics.
- Hoots Memorial Hospital Inc., a 22-bed medical-surgical hospital in Yadkinville, N.C.
- Stokes-Reynolds Memorial Hospital Inc., a general medical-surgical hospital with 53 acute-care beds and 40 long-term care beds in Danbury, N.C.
- The Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Facility at Oak Summit, a 170-bed skilled nursing and intermediate-care facility.
Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP) is the organization comprising the physicians who are the medical school’s board-certified (or equivalent) full-time medical faculty and attending staff of the hospital. WFUP outpatient clinics include about 100 medical and surgical specialties or subspecialties.
Recognition for the Medical Center
· U.S.News & World Report’s “Guide to America’s Best Graduate Schools” (2008 edition) ranked Wake Forest University School of Medicine 18th in primary care and 44th in research among the nation’s medical schools.
· Six Wake Forest University School of Medicine departments ranked in the top 25 in the nation in funding from the National Institutes of Health in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2005, with the Division of Public Health Sciences ranking first in the nation and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology ranking fifth.
· 149 faculty physicians were listed in the most recent edition of “Best Doctors in America,” nearly 90 percent of the total listed in this region.
· The Medical Center is ranked 50th among the nation’s hospitals for the number of doctors (26) listed in “America’s Top Doctors.”
· 176 members of the faculty served as editors or on editorial boards of journals or publications (2005-06).
· 84 faculty members were elected to serve as president or chair of major professional or scientific societies (2005-06).
· 128 faculty members served as consultants to the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies (2005-06).
· 138 faculty members received formal awards and/or recognition for excellence in teaching, research and/or clinical services (2005-06).
· Ranked among “America’s Best Hospitals” in U.S. News & World Report since 1993.
· Winner of the Consumer Choice Award, which honors hospitals that consumers rate as having the highest quality and image, for the past eight years.
· One of the first 14 hospitals in the nation to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service. First in the Carolinas to be designated and to earn redesignation.
· Ranked in the 98th percentile for patient satisfaction among peer institutions for the past five years.
· Fully Accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.