Quick Facts About WFBMC

10 Facts About WFBMC 

1. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers and operates 1,004 acute care, rehabilitation and psychiatric care beds.
2. Wake Forest Baptist is the largest employer in Forsyth County with   14,000 employees.
3. The medical center’s main components are:

a. Wake Forest School of Medicine
b. Wake Forest Baptist Health, the integrated clinical operations that includes Lexington Medical Center, Davie Hospital, Brenner Children's Hospital, our physician practices and other clinical facilities.
c.  Piedmont Triad Research Park, which includes our downtown research offices and facilities.

     4. Wake Forest Baptist consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals.” In 2012, the medical center was ranked in 4 specialties:

                    a. Cancer (42nd)
                    b. Gynecology (49th)
                    c. Nephrology (14^th)
                    d. Urology (37th)

    and recognized as “high performing” in 8 specialties:

                    e. Cardiology & Heart Surgery
                    f. Diabetes & Endocrinology
                    g. Ear, Nose & Throat
                    h. Gastroenterology
                    i. Geriatrics
                    j. Neurology & Neurosurgery
                    k. Orthopedics
                    l. Pulmonology 

    5.  Wake Forest Baptist is home to Brenner Children’s Hospital, the region’s only full-service pediatric hospital that provides expert care for neonates through teens in a state-of-the-art 160-bed facility. 

    6.  The medical center has 20 subsidiary or affiliate hospitals.

    7.  288 of the medical center’s faculty physicians were listed in the 2010 edition of “Best Doctors in America”, 92% of the total listed in Forsyth County.

    8. U.S.News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” (2012 edition) ranked Wake Forest School of Medicine:  

a.  37th in primary care
b.  45th in research
c.  18th for its physician assistant program (2012 ranking)
d.  7th for its joint nurse anesthetist program with the University of North Carolina-Greensboro

      9.  Wake Forest Baptist was the first hospital in the Carolinas to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service and one of the first 14 hospitals in the nation to earn this designation. 

    10.  Wake Forest Baptist is fully accredited by The Joint Commission.