Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Atrium Health
Geography
Location	Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Network	Atrium Health
Services
Emergency department	Level I
Beds	1,535 licensed beds
Helipad	(FAA LID: 5NC7)
History
Opened	1902 as Bowman Gray School of Medicine 1923 as North Carolina Baptist Hospital 1997 as Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center 2011 as Wake Forest Baptist Health 2021 as Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Links
Website	www.wakehealth.edu
Lists	Hospitals in North Carolina

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an academic medical center and health system located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and part of Charlotte-based Atrium Health. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County, with more than 19,220 employees and a total of 198 buildings on 428 acres. In addition to the main, tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem known as Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Health system operates five community hospitals in the surrounding region. The entity includes:

• Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, its clinical enterprise
• Wake Forest School of Medicine, its research and education arm
• Wake Forest Innovations, an operating division involved with partnerships, education, licensing and start-ups.

The medical center was ranked for 2015–16 by U.S. News & World Report as among the nation's best hospitals in seven areas: Cancer, Ear, Nose & Throat, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology, and Urology. It is ranked as high-performing in five additional adult specialties: Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Gynecology, and Orthopedics. Brenner Children's Hospital, a 144-bed "hospital within a hospital" at the medical center, is nationally ranked in Orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report.^[1] Wake Forest provides a variety of medical services. It affiliates with multiple local medical centers for children and adults.