About the Medical Center
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, one of the nation's preeminent academic medical centers, is an integrated health care system that operates 1,298 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 conducts 87 satellite clinics throughout the region. 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 southwest Virginia, the Medical Center in the past year has served patients from 91 North Carolina counties, 39 additional states and several foreign countries.
The Medical Center's component institutions carry out a joint mission of patient care, education, research and community service. The partnership includes three major members: Wake Forest University Health Sciences, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, and Wake Forest University Physicians.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
The medical school has 739 full-time faculty members, including 560 clinicians and 185 in the basic sciences and 3,501 other employees. In addition, 550 physicians are on the part-time clinical faculty.
The school trains medical students, graduate students in master's degrees and Ph.D. programs, and physician assistant students. The school offers the M.D., Ph.D., M.S. and P.A. degrees 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
The Medical Center's primary clinical arm that includes inpatient hospitals, a community health center, a health maintenance organization and primary care centers.
Inpatient facilities are:
- North Carolina Baptist Hospital, an 821-bed teaching hospital that is the region's main tertiary referral center.
- Brenner Children's Hospital & Health Services, a 160-bed "hospital within a hospital" that serves young critically or chronically ill patients and conducts 24 outreach clinics.
- Hoots Memorial Hospital Inc., a 46-bed medical-surgical hospital in Yadkinville, N.C., including the 24-bed Yadkin Heritage Extended Care Facility.
- 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.
- Wake Forest University Baptist Behavioral Health, Inc., a 111-bed facility has a residential treatment program for sexually reactive children and adolescents, a partial hospital program for children and adolescents, and a substance abuse treatment program for older adults.
Wake Forest University Physicians
The organization comprising the 535 physicians who are the medical school's board-certified (or equivalent) full-time medical faculty and also serve as the attending staff of the hospital. WFUP administers members' outpatient clinics that comprise about 85 medical and surgical specialties.
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