Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is an academic medical center located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County with more than 13,000 employees and a total of 172 buildings on 446 acres. The entity includes:
Wake Forest Baptist Health, its clinical enterprise
Wake Forest School of Medicine, its teaching and research arm
Wake Forest Innovations, an operating division that drives innovation through partnerships, education, licensing and start-ups.
The medical center is ranked for 2014-15 by U.S. News & World Report as among the nation’s best hospitals in four areas: Cancer, Ear, Nose & Throat, Nephrology and Pulmonology. It is ranked as high performing in eight additional adult specialties: Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Urology. Brenner Children's Hospital, a 160-bed "hospital within a hospital" at the medical center, is ranked in two pediatric categories by U.S. News & World Report: Neonatology and Orthopedics.
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