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 1,056 acute care, rehabilitation, long-term, and psychiatric care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers. The Medical Center has 22 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 24county region in northwestern North Carolina and southwestern Virginia, Wake Forest Baptist in the year 2008 served patients from 96 (of 100) North Carolina counties, all 50 states, the District of Columbia 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 two main components are North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences which includes the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP).
On August 13, 2008, John D. McConnell, M.D., was named the first chief executive officer of the Medical Center. Under the new structure implemented in 2007, McConnell oversees the clinical, research and academic enterprise for Wake Forest Baptist, reporting to the Medical Center Board of Trustees. The presidents of Health Sciences, N.C. Baptist Hospital and WFUP all report to the Medical Center CEO. For academic purposes, the Health Sciences president also reports to the president of Wake Forest University. Both N.C. Baptist Hospital and Health Sciences retain their respective boards, both of which have representation on the Medical Center Board.
Wake Forest University Health Sciences encompasses the School of Medicine and its academic and research missions, 14 dialysis centers, Piedmont Triad Research Park and the new Wet Lab LaunchPadTM located in the Park.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) has 939 medical and science faculty members and 537 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) as well as the joint degrees of M.D./M.S. in Health Sciences Research, the M.D./Ph.D., the M.D./M.B.A., the Ph.D./M.B.A., and the M.D./Graduate Certificate Program in Spirituality and Health (School of Divinity at WFU).
North Carolina Baptist Hospital (NCBH) is the Medical Center’s primary clinical arm, including inpatient hospitals, a community health center and primary care centers. 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 has been the leading children’s hospital in the region for more than 20 years. A 400,000-square-foot tower opened in 2002 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.
- Davie County Emergency Health Corporation (Davie County Hospital), a critical access hospital with 25 acute-care beds located in Mocksville, N.C.
- Stokes-Reynolds Memorial Hospital Inc., a general medical-surgical hospital with 25 acute-care beds and 40 long-term care beds in Danbury, N.C.
Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP) is the organization 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.