WakeMed

WakeMed Health and Hospitals is a 864-bed healthcare system with eight facilities placed throughout Wake County, NC. WakeMed’s main campus is located on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh, NC. WakeMed serves multiple counties throughout the state and specializes in a variety of services including cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, high-risk pregnancy, children’s care, trauma, physical rehabilitation and critical care transport.

WakeMed's largest campus, based in Raleigh, houses five adult intensive care units, a same-day surgery center, two 24-hour emergency departments, one for adults and another for children, a 68-bed rehabilitation hospital, the Women’s Pavilion & Birthplace, a 36-bed neonatal intensive care nursery, physician practices through WakeMed Faculty Physicians, laboratories, diagnostic services and more.

In addition to the Raleigh Campus, patients can find access to care at one of WakeMed's 9 facilities. These include the WakeMed North Healthplex in north Raleigh, a full service hospital in Cary, NC, skilled nursing and outpatient facilities in Fuquay-Varina, NC and Zebulon/Wendell, NC, an outpatient medical park in Clayton, NC and Raleigh's Wake Forest Road Outpatient Rehab Center. In 2007, WakeMed will add to their services with new locations in the Brier Creek community and Apex, NC.

WakeMed provides a full spectrum of health services, from prevention, education, primary and acute care to specialty care, tertiary care, physical rehabilitation and home health. WakeMed is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. William K. Atkinson, PhD, MPH, is WakeMed's president and CEO.