Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Programs: Medical research, general/other: research comprised of basic science clinical research and population based studies and is centered on the acquisition and advancement of scientific knowledge and new technology and their transfer to industry and the patient in order to prevent and treat disease and promote health (1,878 grants).

patient care and medical expenses in providing services to 1,004,692 patient encounters.

professional education: instruction of more than 1,600 medical, graduate, and physician assistant students. Scholarships and aid provided to 1,083 students.

wake forest university health sciences is an integral part of wake forest baptist medical center, a preeminent, internationally recognized academic medical center of the highest quality with balanced excellence in patient care, research and education. The following paragraphs are provided to explain the relationship of the filing organization with other organizations which together comprise "wake forest baptist medical center," the name not of any one corporate entity, but used generically to describe a large group of mostly tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organizations performing various academic medical center activities in northwest north carolina, including patient care, medical research, technology transfer and medical education. Because these activities are not all performed by each organization, the narrative that follows will include descriptions of activities that are performed by the filing organization and by a related (or unrelated but affiliated) organization; they are again provided to illustrate a complete picture of the filing organization's role in this integrated academic medical center's comprehensive activities. Wake forest baptist medical center is northwest north carolina's sole academic medical center, bringing to the region the resources of one of america's top hospitals and innovative research centers and a premier medical school. Wake forest university baptist medical center (wfubmc) is a corporation whose two equal members are wake forest university and north carolina baptist hospital. The medical center operates wake forest university school of medicine, which has a faculty of 1,247, including physicians and basic scientists. The medical center has 1,029 acute care and rehabilitation beds operative across the system, which encompasses its main campus (885 beds), wake forest baptist health lexington medical center (94 beds) and wake forest baptist health davie medical center (50 beds). The medical center opened a $47 million, 50-bed inpatient facility at davie medical center in the spring of 2017. Overall, wake forest baptist medical center serves a 24-county region in northwestern north carolina and southwestern virginia and draws patients from across the nation for select services. The medical center is the driving force behind the establishment of wake forest innovation quarter, a growing urban-based district for research, business and education in biomedical science, information technology, clinical services and advanced materials in downtown winston-salem. Home to more than 152 companies, four leading institutions, more than 3,600 workers, 1,522 students and 8,000 workforce trainee participants, the innovation quarter currently comprises 1. 9 million square feet of office, laboratory and educational space on its 200+ developable acres. In july 2016, wake forest university school of medicine students began their medical careers in the bowman gray center for medical education in the innovation quarter. The $60 million building was designed with the next generation of physician-leaders in mind. It includes the latest technologies and simulation labs that allow students to prepare for real-life experiences. The opening of the bowman gray center coincided with the adoption of a new medical school curriculum that is one of the most advanced in the country. In november 2016, wake forest baptist medical center was awarded a five-year, $8. 7 million grant from the national institutes of health for the establishment of a new center for research into alzheimer's disease. The alzheimer's disease core center at wake forest baptist is among 31 nih-funded alzheimer's research centers in the country and the only one in north carolina. The center will provide training in translational research to new investigators and develop educational programs about alzheimer's and dementia for health care professionals, patients and family members, and the community at large. The center already is offering groundbreaking clinical trials, including studies that examine how exercise, diet and new drugs may affect the development or progress of alzheimer's and dementia. 1. Clinical services wake forest baptist medical center is nationally recognized for clinical excellence and internationally known for pioneering research and clinical innovation. Its clinical enterprise, wake forest baptist health, offers expertise in more than 100 areas of medicine, encompassing comprehensive preventive and highly specialized care for all ages. The medical center network includes the 167-bed comprehensive cancer center and the 144-bed brenner children's hospital, both of which are on the main campus in winston-salem, as well as community hospitals in neighboring davidson and davie counties. Across its service area of northwest north carolina and southwest virginia, wake forest baptist has 3 emergency departments, 3 urgent care centers, 72 primary care clinics, 265 specialty clinics, 18 out-patient dialysis centers, 1 free-standing dialysis access-center, and freestanding imaging and endoscopy centers. The medical center employs 1,865 physicians, 3,184 registered nurses, and 716 residents and fellows. It has a total staff of 16,157. Overall in fy 2017, wake forest baptist had 55,568 inpatient admissions, 158,344 emergency department visits and 1,868,802 outpatient encounters (ambulatory visits and outpatient departments). 2. Outreachwake forest baptist medical center continues a broad-based effort to reach underserved populations across its service area. The medical center's annual community benefits report reflects this commitment. In fiscal 2017, the medical center spent $374 million to support these areas: subsidized health costs community health outreach charity care research educationone anchor of outreach for the medical center is its downtown health plaza, a full-service, outpatient medical clinic that serves many of forsyth county's uninsured and underinsured residents with a state-of-the-art medical home. In addition to clinical care, the downtown health plaza offers community health fairs, diabetes education and a centering pregnancy program that is reducing the incidence of low birth weight babies. Altogether, 64,768 patient visits were recorded at the downtown health plaza in the 2017 fiscal year, and another 13,348 visits were recorded at winston east pediatrics, a nearby wake forest baptist care facility serving the uninsured and underinsured. The medical center's programs and partnerships reflect innovative efforts to reach underserved populations. They include:-- regular community-based health clinics, including: the weekly delivering equal access to care (deac) clinic at the community care center in winston-salem, the monthly triad free health clinic at community mosque in winston-salem, the monthly grace clinic at new light missionary baptist church in winston-salem and the annual share the health fair at the downtown health plaza in winston-salem. These clinics, sponsored by private organizations and churches with volunteer assistance from wake forest baptist physicians, nurses, medical students and others, attract thousands of people to screenings for acute and chronic conditions. -- the school of medicine's physician assistant (pa) program, which is increasing the number of pa's working in primary care in north carolina's rural appalachian counties through its second campus at appalachian state university in boone. -- faithhealthnc, an initiative that connects the caring strengths of congregations, the clinical expertise of providers and a network of community resources to ease those on the journey to health and healing, strengthening communities in the process. One example of this work is a faithhealth program in which workers known as supporters of health connect patients with resources they need after a health incident or hospitalization. The goal is to help these patients avoid readmission, in particular to the emergency department. 3. Educational mission and accomplishments the constituent organizations of wake forest baptist medical center operate a broad range of educational programs, graduating skilled practitioners. It attracts some of the world's most competitive medical students, residents and fellows, as well as students in clinical pastoral care, nurse anesthesia and other areas. In the most recent reporting period, wake forest baptist invested more than $107. 3 million in the education of tomorrow's health care and biomedical leaders and in research funding not covered by outside sources. That investment supported training of 491 medical students, 716 physician residents and fellows, 267 graduate students and 175 physician assistants. In addition, the northwest area health education center, part of wake forest university school of medicine, offered 1,935 continuing medical education activities that drew 35,019 participants from throughout the region.