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Nationally renowned, world-class care
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- Wake Forest Baptist is ranked as one of America’s best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report (top 50 since 1993).
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Top rankings in Endocrinology and Respiratory Disorders (July 2007)
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· As an academic medical center, Wake Forest Baptist brings together the best of patient care, research and education. With internationally recognized faculty who are pushing the frontiers of medicine and a focus on expert training, Wake Forest Baptist offers patients the benefit of the latest medical knowledge and subspecialty care.
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- Wake Forest is a major research center with more than 1,000 research studies and clinical trials underway, offering patients the latest treatment options.
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- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is composed of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, a tertiary care facility (1,154 licensed beds), and the Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
- Wake Forest University Physicians, the association of doctors who staff N.C. Baptist Hospital, includes approximately 557 doctors practicing in more than 100 areas of medicine – a level of subspecialty expertise that is unmatched in the region.
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- Wake Forest Baptist ranks 32nd in the nation for the number of top-ranked physicians on faculty, according to independent surveys by America’s Top Doctors 2007. Less than 10% of U.S. hospitals have doctors included in this prestigious listing.
- Wake Forest Baptist is home to 85% (181) of the Forsyth County physicians voted the Best Doctors in America 2007® by their peers.
- America’s Top Doctors for Cancer 2006 includes 13 WFU Comprehensive Cancer Center physicians – the only Piedmont Triad doctors listed.
- Wake Forest Baptist is one of the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals according to a 2007 study reported in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
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One of America’s Best Medical Schools
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- WFU School of Medicine ranks 18th in primary care and 44 th in research among the nation’s medical schools according to U.S. News & World Report. (April ’07)
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- WFU School of Medicine ranks 35nd in NIH funding among American medical schools. (2006)
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- WFUBMC is the top consumer choice for health care among residents of Forsyth, Davie, Stokes and Yadkin counties, according to the National Research Corporation. The Consumer Choice Award is based on best overall quality, best doctors, best nurses and best image and reputation. (since 1999)
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- N.C. Baptist Hospital patient satisfaction scores are among the nation’s highest (according to Press Ganey and Associates) – in the 97th percentile as compared to our peer institutions. (since 2002)
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- N.C. Baptist Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission.
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- Wake Forest Baptist is recognized for nursing excellence and was one of the nation’s first 15 recipients of the prestigious Magnet Awards from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
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Centers of Excellence/Service Highlights
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- Wake Forest Baptist is home to northwestern North Carolina’s only full service children’s hospital, Brenner Children’s Hospital, with subspecialists in more than 30 areas of medicine and the region’s only Level IV neonatal nursery.
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- Wake Forest Baptist is home to North Carolina’s first Gamma Knife, a non-invasive procedure that avoids open neurosurgery, performed by one of the most experienced treatment teams in the U.S. It is home to the state’s only MEG (magnetoencephalography) unit, which images brain function and enhances neurosurgical accuracy.
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- Wake Forest operates one of the nation’s leading Comprehensive Cancer Centers – one of only about 40 in the nation designated by the National Cancer Institute as comprehensive, offering more than 200 cancer-related clinical trials – more than any other hospital in western N.C. The Center is home to one of the first five Integrated Brachytherapy Units for cancer treatment in North America.
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- Wake Forest Baptist includes theHeart Center, an internationally recognized leader in research and state-of-the art cardiac treatment. This is the region’s most comprehensive cardiac care center and the only one to offer heart transplant.
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- N.C. Baptist Hospital is home to one of the state’s busiest Level 1 trauma centers…We operate one of only two burn units in North Carolina… Our Level 1 Trauma Center was first in North Carolina to be nationally verified by the American College of Surgeons…This is the region’s only Level 1 service.
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Regional Impact
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- Wake Forest Baptist is Forsyth County’s largest employer (11,000+ employees) and an engine for regional economic growth, particularly in biotechnology.
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- Wake Forest University School of Medicine is aggressively developing Piedmont Triad Research Park, a 200-acre downtown research campus that is contributing significantly to urban revitalization.
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- Wake Forest Baptist operates more than 100 outreach services throughout northwest North Carolina, helping to overcome barriers to highly specialized medical care.
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- Wake Forest University Baptist invested $121.9 million in community benefits funding in fiscal year 2006.
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