UNC Health | |
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Geography | |
Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States |
Organization | |
Care system | Non-profit |
Affiliated university | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina School of Medicine |
Services | |
History | |
Opened | 1989 [1] |
Links | |
Website | https://www.unchealthcare.org |
Lists | Hospitals in the United States |
UNC Health is a not-for-profit medical system owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It provides services throughout the Research Triangle and North Carolina. UNC Health was created in 1998, when the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that established the UNC Health Care System, bringing under one entity UNC Hospitals and the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine.[1] In 2018, the system reported over 3.5 million outpatient visits and over 500,000 emergency visits.[2]