Chapel Hill - University North Carolina Hospitals

The University of North Carolina Hospitals, a 700+ bed Level 1 teaching and trauma center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation's first state university. The UNC Healthcare system is a non-profit health care system owned by the State of North Carolina.

It is comprised of 4 hospitals which are connected by a central lobby to allow for easy access to all the hospital towers: 

• North Carolina Memorial Hospital
• North Carolina Children's Hospital (opened in 2002)
• North Carolina Women's Hospital (opened in 2002)
• North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital
• North Carolina Cancer Hospital (soon to be built and will encompass the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of a small number of NIH designated centers in the US.) 

UNC Hospitals is nationally recognized as a leader and innovator in healthcare. UNC's division of Health Affairs has been called "the most complete constellation of education, research and service efforts in the field of health available on any university campus." The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill houses the UNC School of Nursing, UNC School of Medicine, UNC School of Dentistry, UNC School of Pharmacy and the UNC School of Public Health. UNC Hospitals and the university are now united along with Rex Healthcare and UNC Healthcare’s community practices, under the auspices of UNC Healthcare.
Components of UNC Health Care System

• About 1,500 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty physicians and physicians-in-training who provide care for patients in North Carolina.
• A world-class academic medical center, including a top-ranked public medical school and modern hospitals for children, women, neurologic and psychiatric patients, and general adult patient care.
• A constellation of nationally recognized centers of clinical excellence, including such areas of special expertise as burn care, cancer treatment,diabetes, gastrointestinal diseases, obstetrics, organ transplant and pediatrics.
• A network of UNC-owned community medical practices across central North Carolina.
• A home health agency licensed to provide services in 37 North Carolina counties and an associated multi-county hospice program.
• Emergency and urgent care facilities in Chapel Hill that provide around-the-clock services for accident and trauma victims and for people with minor, but urgent medical needs.

An air and ground patient transportation system that provides helicopter service statewide from Chapel Hill and community-based ambulance transportation from a growing number of sites outside the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area.

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