The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC). This academic institution is home to the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and, in addition, hosts 55 accredited residency/fellowship programs totaling some 600 residents and fellows within those programs.
The principal referral area for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center includes northwest North Carolina, southwest Virginia, southeast West Virginia, and eastern Tennessee, an area of greater than three million people with over 30,000 deliveries per year. Additional referrals come from surrounding communities to the east and south of Winston-Salem.
WFUBMC is a tertiary care hospital with 1,004 beds and serves as a primary site for our Gynecologic Oncology, Reproductive Endocrinology, and general gynecologic care. The affiliated hospital within Winston-Salem is Forsyth Medical Center (FMC), a facility of approximately 900 beds located only 3 miles from WFUBMC. Residents spend approximately 50% of their four years of residency at each institution, but are only assigned to one institution at a time for each rotation. FMC houses the unique consolidated perinatal services in the well-equipped Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health. All infant deliveries within the Forsyth County and those referred from all surrounding areas are managed in this tertiary care unit, resulting in over 7,000 deliveries per year. The clinical and teaching core of this service consists of faculty from our WFUBMC departments including six maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists, three MFM fellows, four obstetrics and gynecology generalists, seven neonatologists, eleven obstetric anesthesiologists, and additional support staff. The Women’s Center consist of the Prenatal Assessment Ultrasound Center, a 24 bed labor/delivery/recovery suite with 8 additional triage beds that opened in 2008, six operating rooms dedicated to obstetric and gynecologic surgery, a 12 bed recovery area and facilities for complete antepartum and maternal intensive care. A normal newborn nursery and special care newborn nursery house 76 bassinets. Newborn infants requiring very intensive care are managed in the 82 bed level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.