ur annual report dives into the data to shows that being part of a large, multihospital system isn’t a determine which medical centers are most suc- requirement to perform at a high level. In four of the last five cessful at their fundamental goal: providing qual- years, CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern has landed O BUSINESS NORTH ity care for patients. The result is in the top five, while CaroMont Regional Medical Center in CAROLINA’s 2019 Best Hospitals list. Gastonia has appeared three times. The list is calculated by the hospitals’ performance in 25 “You can’t find a this size in the state with the metrics, including information provided by the U.S. Centers for sophistication and breadth of services that we have,” says Medicare & Medicaid Services. We examine patient-satisfac- CarolinaEast CEO Ray Leggett III. But with rising health care tion surveys, rates of commonly acquired hospital infections, costs and increased consolidation, how much longer will the and readmission and death rates for common procedures. Also state’s independent health care systems be able to stand on considered are safety report cards from The Leapfrog Group, their own? a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, and ratings from insurer “Right now, we’ve been successful enough clinically, op- Blue Cross and Blue Shield and U.S. News & World Report. We erationally and financially. We’re a strong organization,” says rank the state’s adult, acute-care medical centers with at least Leggett, who has worked at the New Bern medical center for 50 beds, excluding specialty and psychiatric hospitals. nearly three decades, including 10 years as CEO. “I have seen While the top two performers on this year’s list employ a health care change so much over the last 28 years. Who the combined 18,000 people and include about 1,500 beds, the list heck knows in five to 10 years?”

MARCH 2019 47 NORTH CAROLINA’S CONE HEALTH1 BEST (TIE) HOSPITALS GREENSBORO BEDS: 802 | 2018 RANK: 4 | CEO: TERRY AKIN Cone has expanded from its flagship Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1953, to a six-hospital system that employs about 12,000 people. Recent investments include the $100 million, 196,000-square-foot Cone Health Women’s and Children’s Center, expected to WE HAVE an EXPERT 01 open later this year at Cone Hospital’s main campus. Cone’s Triad Healthcare Network ranks among the top-performing Medicare accountable care organizations in the U.S., according to federal data. Launched in 2012, the network of about 2,000 providers deploys health care professionals to for EVERYTHING. monitor patients after surgeries and other procedures, yielding fewer return visits.

Cone faces increasing competition from larger Winston-Salem-based and Wake For- est Baptist Health as the systems jockey in the Triad, which lacks the explosive growth of Charlotte SO YOU CAN be THERE and the Triangle. (TIE) UNC REX HEALTHCARE for EVERYTHING. RALEIGH BEDS: 660 | 2018 RANK: 2 | PRESIDENT: STEVE BURRISS It’s been three years since UNC Health Care changed the name of its UNC Health Care is North Carolina’s Raleigh health system to UNC Rex Healthcare, 15 years after purchasing the not-for-profit organization. Since then, the university-led system has health system and everything we do is to shown an innovative, growth-minded strategy. In 2012, it launched Rex Health 01 Ventures, one of the nation’s first venture-capital funds run by a community hospi- help our state stay healthy. We’re making tal. It has made about a dozen investments. Construction will start this spring on a $65 million cancer center that is expected to open by early 2021, more than doubling space dedicated to cancer care. sure you have what you need, where UNC Rex faces nimble Triangle-based competitors in WakeMed and Duke University Health as the and when you need it. We’re partnering region’s rapid population growth provides a steady stream of potential new customers. with other innovators to put health care at your fingertips, offering 24/7 virtual MISSION HOSPITAL ASHEVILLE appointments, and developing clinical trials BEDS: 730 | 2018 RANK: 1 | PRESIDENT: JILL HOGGARD GREEN to give families more hope. From common Mission gained muscle after Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5 billion purchase of the 12,000-employee system last to complex, we’ve got you covered, so you month. HCA, a publicly traded company with 2018 revenue of $46.7 billion, plans to build a 120-bed behavioral health hospital in Asheville, replace the don’t miss a thing. 03 aging Angel Medical Center in Franklin, complete the build-out of a $400 million medical tower already under construction and invest $232 million in existing facilities. Mission, which covers the state’s 18 westernmost counties, spent more than $210 million in community investments in 2017; a foundation established as part of the HCA deal will support continued local outreach. Maintaining its prominence as one of the state’s top-performing hospitals could be a challenge for HCA, which has a reputation for stringent cost controls and, unlike not-for-profit Mission, must consider stockholder demands for robust earnings.

Caldwell UNC Healthcare • Johnston Health • Onslow Memorial Hospital CAROMONT REGIONAL Pardee Hospital • UNC Chatham Hospital • UNC Lenoir Health Care UNC Medical Center • UNC Physicians Network • UNC REX Healthcare MEDICAL CENTER UNC Rockingham Health Care • Wayne UNC Health Care GASTONIA BEDS: 435 | 2018 RANK: 6 | CEO: CHRIS PEEK Last year, CaroMont was named among the Top 100 hospitals by IBM Learn more at TenMillionReasons.org Watson Health for the fifth time.U.S. News & World Report ranks CaroMont as high-performing in treating heart failure and chronic 04obstructive pulmonary disease. In BNC’s study, CaroMont earned high marks for low rates of common hospital-acquired infections.

With population growth picking up in Gaston County, it could be a target market for Charlotte- © UNC Health Care based Atrium Health, which plans to invest $1 billion over seven years in expansions and improvements. MARCH 2019 49 NORTH CAROLINA’S CAROLINAEAST BEST CON Statute Under Attack MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITALS NEW BERN in North Carolina: BEDS: 350 | 2018 RANK: 4 | CEO: RAYMOND LEGGETT III Top-notch heart care is the hallmark of this Craven County hospital. In February, CarolinaEast was named an American Heart Association What You Need to Know 05 Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, the first North Carolina hospital to receive the designation. The county-owned medical center is in the midst of its largest expansion and renovation, including a new three-story tower that will house administrative offices and a clinical lab; a new women’s and children’s health pavilion; and an ER expansion and renovation. The SECU Comprehensive Cancer Center, a collaboration with UNC Health Care, will open later this year.

Replacing major medical equipment? Relocating operation rooms? Have an innovative Attracting and retaining a talented staff in a small community are challenges. CarolinaEast’s relatively use for underutilized nursing or rehab beds? Renovating or replacing surgery suites, small size could limit its ability to negotiate contracts with dominant insurers including Blue Cross. patient care areas, or physical plant structures? Thinking of buying a competitor, or ATRIUM HEALTH’S selling to one? CAROLINAS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM NORTHEAST All of these typical hospital projects implicate The Poyner Spruill Health Law Team has decades CONCORD

North Carolina’s Certificate of Need (CON) of experience working with health care clients BEDS: 457 | 2018 RANK: 11 | PRESIDENT: PHYLLIS WINGATE Statute. While many of the typical hospital of all types in understanding and navigating our Carolinas HealthCare System, now Atrium Health, acquired the Cabarrus 06 County hospital in 2007. The first phase of a $115.2 million moderniza- construction and renovation projects, retooling of state’s CON law and regulatory process. We help tion project, a new 165,000-square-foot heart and vascular tower, will open later this year. The tower will include a catheterization lab, cardiovascular intensive care unit, 60 space, and even medical equipment acquisitions, clients strategize projects around the state’s CON replacement beds and new cardiac operating rooms.

are now exempt from the need to obtain a CON, and other regulatory requirements; help clients Rival Novant Health is expanding aggressively in the Charlotte region but has limited operations in prior written notice of most major projects still develop and file CON applications and Exemption Cabarrus County, one of the state’s fastest-growing areas. must be given to the CON Notices; and assist in Section, along with an Currently, North Carolina’s CON Statute appeals of CON decisions explanation, and supporting when necessary. We do this is under attack in state courts. We have DURHAM documentation, of how for major hospital systems, intervened to defend this statute on BEDS: 957 | 2018 RANK: 11 | PRESIDENT: THOMAS OWENS the project qualifies for an community hospitals, and A top U.S. research hospital — its affiliated medical school was awarded more than $356 million in National Institutes of Health grants in 2017 exemption under the CON behalf of several clients. all other sectors of the health — Duke also earns high marks with patients: 87% said they would Statute. Failing to do this care space, including skilled recommend the hospital to others, per Medicare data compiled for this report. 07 Duke hosts more than 1 million outpatient visits annually. can result in fines and sanctions from the state. nursing facilities, assisted living communities, Failing to understand how to draft, file, and follow ambulatory surgery centers, hospices, home While it dominates Durham County and benefits from an international reputation, Duke Health’s Wake County operations are smaller than rivals WakeMed and UNC Health Care. Expansion plans in an exemption request can result in real delays in health agencies, diagnostic centers, and others. west Cary were hobbled in January when the state denied Duke’s proposal to add four operating critically important projects. And, understanding rooms as part of a planned 1 million-square-foot facility. the CON implications of cutting edge projects, such as leasing unused space to third party Ken Burgess Todd Hemphill ATRIUM HEALTH’S providers or reimagining underutilized patient 919.783.2917 919.783.2958 CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER2 care areas, is vitally important to the success of [email protected] [email protected] CHARLOTTE such innovative projects. BEDS: 1,080 | 2018 RANK: 3 | INTERIM PRESIDENT: CHRIS BOWE After a proposed merger with UNC Health Care fell through in early 2018, Atrium responded by announcing a $1 billion investment across Matt Fisher Bill Shenton its 40-plus hospital system. Enhancements at the flagship location 08include a 12-story tower with 384 beds that will replace current infrastructure, a new building and parking 919.783.2924 919.783.2947 [email protected] [email protected] deck for its Carolinas Rehabilitation center, and an expanded emergency room. The state’s biggest system has suffered publicity blows over the last year with a prominent 90-physi- cian medical practice breaking away; a feud with the region’s biggest anesthesiologist organization; and settlements of federal antitrust allegations. As Atrium expands outside the state — it completed CHARLOTTE | RALEIGH | ROCKY MOUNT | SOUTHERN PINES a merger with Georgia’s Navicent Health in January — it will have to prove that bigger is indeed better. MARCH 2019 51 © 2019 Poyner Spruill LLP | www.poynerspruill.com | All rights reserved. NORTH CAROLINA’S BEST (TIE) UNC HOSPITALS HOSPITALS CHAPEL HILL MISSION: BEDS: 929 | 2018 RANK: 15 | PRESIDENT: GARY PARK UNC Hospitals broke ground in September on a seven-story, 335,000-square-foot surgical tower, expected to be complete in 2022. The $290 million structure will allow for the replacement of operating rooms that were constructed in 1952. UNC earned high marks for patient satisfac- 09 tion and low rates of common hospital-acquired infections. deliver the best care, Factors that pressed UNC officials to seek a collaboration with Atrium Health remain in place. with the most care. Wesley Burks has succeeded merger advocate Bill Roper as the system’s CEO. (TIE) WAKE FOREST BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER Your primary care doctor WINSTON-SALEM at Mission Health is here BEDS: 885 | 2018 RANK: 9 | CEO: JULIE ANN FREISCHLAG Wake Forest’s acquisition of High Point Regional Health didn’t slow plans with the expertise and for growth at its main campus: In July, the medical center said it would the empathy you need. 09 renovate two floors, establish a general acute-care unit with 30 licensed beds and expand the neonatal intensive care unit. The hospital is nationally Our singular mission is to ranked by U.S. News in seven specialties, including No. 19 in cancer care. The system’s growth potential remains in question with Cone, Duke and UNC Health Care to the help you realize your full east, Atrium and Novant to the south, and HCA/Mission to the west. A history of fairly benign competition with Novant could be fraying, reflected in Wake Forest’s re-entry into the delivery of potential and live the life low-risk pregnancies on its main campus. you want. (TIE) ATRIUM HEALTH (TIE) DUKE REGIONAL missionhealth.org HOSPITAL 11 PINEVILLE 14 DURHAM BEDS: 235 | 2018 RANK: 7 | PRESIDENT: CHRIS HUMMER BEDS: 369 | 2018 RANK: 16 | PRESIDENT: KATIE GALBRAITH

(TIE) FIRSTHEALTH (TIE) NOVANT HEALTH 11 MOORE REGIONAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL3 14 MEDICAL CENTER PINEHURST CHARLOTTE BEDS: 501 | 2018 RANK: 11 | CEO: DAVID KILARSKI BEDS: 597 | 2018 RANK: 14 | PRESIDENT: PAULA VINCENT

WAKE FOREST BAPTIST NOVANT HEALTH HEALTH - HIGH POINT MATTHEWS MEDICAL 13 MEDICAL CENTER 17 CENTER BEDS: 351 | 2018 RANK: 7 | PRESIDENT: JAMES HOEKSTRA BEDS: 146 | 2018 RANK: 22 | PRESIDENT: ROLAND BIBEAU

(TIE) CAPE FEAR VALLEY NEW HANOVER REGIONAL 14 MEDICAL CENTER 18 MEDICAL CENTER FAYETTEVILLE WILMINGTON

BEDS: 666 | 2018 RANK: 17 | CEO: MICHAEL NAGOWSKI BEDS: 769 | 2018 RANK: 9 | CEO: JOHN GIZDIC MISSION:YOU MARCH 2019 53 NORTH CAROLINA’S BEST HOSPITALS What does this Award really (TIE) FRYE REGIONAL (TIE) VIDANT mean to you and your family? 19 MEDICAL CENTER 22 MEDICAL CENTER HICKORY GREENVILLE

BEDS: 355 | 2018 RANK: 22 | CEO: GAR ATCHISON BEDS: 909 | 2018 RANK: 20 | PRESIDENT: BRIAN FLOYD

(TIE) NOVANT HEALTH (TIE) WAKEMED FORSYTH MEDICAL RALEIGH CAMPUS 19 CENTER4 22 BEDS: 726 | 2018 RANK: 17 | ADMINISTRATOR: REBECCA ANDREWS WINSTON-SALEM BEDS: 971 | 2018 RANK: 25 | PRESIDENT: CHAD SETLIFF

(TIE) WAKEMED (TIE) JOHNSTON HEALTH CARY HOSPITAL For seven consecutive years, Catawba 19 25 SMITHFIELD BEDS: 156 | 2018 RANK: N/A | ADMINISTRATOR: THOMAS GOUGH Valley Health System has been BEDS: 199 | 2018 RANK: 25 | CEO: CHUCK ELLIOTT named a recipient of the Women’s Choice Award as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Obstetrics. This (TIE) PARDEE (TIE) NOVANT HEALTH distinction identifies the nation’s best 22 UNC HEALTH CARE 25 HUNTERSVILLE healthcare institutions measured HENDERSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER

against the needs and preferences BEDS: 222 | 2018 RANK: 22 | CEO: JAMES KIRBY II BEDS: 91 | 2018 RANK: N/A | PRESIDENT: MIKE RILEY of women, providing women the opportunity to identify which hospitals 1 includes The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro, 517 beds), Wesley Long (Greens- 3 includes First Health Moore Regional (Pinehurst, 402 beds) and First Health Richmond Memo- deliver the quality patient experience boro, 175 beds) and Annie Penn (Reidsville, 110 beds) rial (Rockingham, 99 beds) It’s no they seek for their families. 2 includes (907 beds) and Carolinas Medical Center Mercy (173 beds) 4 includes Novant Health Forsyth (921 beds) and Kernersville Medical Center (50 beds) wonder 4 out of 5 area women choose to deliver their baby at Catawba.

These are the top acute-care hospitals in the state with 50 or more beds based on the percentage of patients who would recommend the hospital to others, as of December 2018. The ranking is based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, a survey completed by adult hospital patients between 48 hours and six weeks after discharge. The North Carolina average is 71%, while the CATAWBA national average is 72%. PATIENT PICKS CITY % 12 Atrium Health Pineville Charlotte 78 VALLEY 1 Wake Forest Baptist Health-Davie Medical Center Mocksville 93 12 WakeMed Raleigh Campus Raleigh 78 HEALTH 2 Duke University Hospital Durham 87 15 Cone Health Greensboro 77 3 Mission Health Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Highlands 85 15 Duke Regional Hospital Durham 77 SYSTEM 4 UNC Rex Healthcare Raleigh 84 15 WakeMed Cary Hospital Cary 77 4 UNC Hospitals Chapel Hill 84 15 Greenville 77 6 FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital Pinehurst 83 15 Duke Raleigh Hospital Raleigh 77 828.326.3000 7 Mission Hospital Asheville 82 15 Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Elkin 77 www.catawbavalleyhealth.org 8 New Hanover Regional Medical Center Wilmington 81 15 Davis Regional Medical Center Statesville 77 810 Fairgrove Church Rd. SE 9 AdventHealth Hendersonville Hendersonville 80 15 Atrium Health Kings Mountain Kings Mountain 77 Hickory, NC 28602 10 CarolinaEast Medical Center New Bern 79 23 Pardee UNC Health Care Hendersonville 76 10 Catawba Valley Medical Center Hickory 79 23 Vidant Edgecombe Hospital Tarboro 76 Follow us on Facebook 12 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem 78 23 Pender Memorial Hospital Burgaw 76

Catawba Valley Medical Center does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, national origin, disability, or race in its health programs. Español (Spanish) ATENCIÓN: si habla español, tiene a su disposición servicios gratuitos de asistencia lingüística. MARCH 2019 55 繁體中文 (Chinese) 注意：如果您使用繁體中文，您可以免費獲得語言援助服務。請致電 Hmoob (Hmong) LUS CEEV: Yog tias koj hais lus Hmoob, cov kev pab txog lus, muaj kev pab dawb rau koj. Hu NORTH BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD CAROLINA’S BEST HOSPITALS

THE STATE’S LARGEST HEALTH INSURER RECOGNIZES HOSPITALS FOR THEIR QUALITY OF CARE IN CERTAIN SPECIALTIES, BASED ON CRITERIA INCLUDING PATIENT SAFETY AND RESULTS AND INPUT FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY. THE HOSPITALS LISTED HERE WERE DESIGNATED AS BLUE DISTINCTION CENTERS AS OF EARLY JANUARY.

Atrium Health’s Carolinas HealthCare System Stanly, Duke Raleigh Hospital: Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, Albemarle: knee and hip replacement, spine surgery Charlotte: maternity care bariatric surgery, cardiac care, spine surgery Duke Regional Hospital, Durham: Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy, bariatric surgery, cardiac care, knee and hip replace- Novant Health Rowan Medical Center, Charlotte: ment, maternity care Salisbury: bariatric surgery bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement, maternity Duke University Hospital, Durham: care, spine surgery Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte: cardiac care, knee and hip replacement, transplants maternity care, spine surgery, transplants (bone- (bone-marrow/stem-cell, liver, lung and pancreas) Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center, marrow/stem-cell, heart and liver) maternity care FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, Atrium Health Cleveland, Shelby: Pinehurst: Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville: maternity care bariatric surgery, cardiac care, knee and hip replace- maternity care ment, maternity care Atrium Health’s Carolinas HealthCare System North- Pardee UNC Health Care, Hendersonville: East, Concord: Frye Regional Medical Center, Hickory: Knee and hip replacement bariatric surgery, cardiac care, maternity care bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement, spine surgery Rutherford Regional Medical Center, Atrium Health Pineville: Rutherfordton: It’s time to feel your best. Physically. Mentally. Spiritually. maternity care Halifax Regional Medical Center, Roanoke Rapids: knee and hip replacement maternity care To be centered. And supported. To feel the power of a world-class Atrium Health Union, Monroe: Scotland Memorial Hospital, Laurinburg: maternity care Iredell Memorial Hospital, Statesville: maternity care health care network coming together to help you take control knee and hip replacement of your health. It’s time to feel whole. Atrium Health University City, Charlotte: UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill: maternity care Johnston Health, Smithfield: bariatric surgery, cardiac care, knee and hip replace- maternity care ment, maternity care, spine surgery, transplants (bone Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Lenoir: marrow/stem cell, heart, liver and lung) maternity care Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Mooresville: bariatric surgery, maternity care UNC Rex Healthcare, Raleigh: Primary Care Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville: bariatric surgery, cardiac care, knee and hip replace- bariatric surgery Mission Hospital, Asheville: ment, spine surgery Emergency Care bariatric surgery, maternity care Orthopedics CarolinaEast Medical Center, New Bern: Vidant Medical Center, Greenville: cardiac care, maternity care Nash General Hospital, Rocky Mount: bariatric surgery Oncology bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement, maternity CaroMont Regional Medical Center, Gastonia: care Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Cardiology knee and hip replacement, maternity care, spine Winston-Salem: surgery New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington: transplants (bone-marrow/stem-cell, heart, pancreas) bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement, spine Surgery Carteret Health Care, Morehead City: surgery Wake Forest Baptist — High Point Medical Center, bariatric surgery knee and hip replacement, maternity care, spine Novant Health Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital, surgery Catawba Valley Health System, Hickory: Charlotte: maternity care knee and hip replacement, spine surgery WakeMed Cary Hospital: For a complete list of our network bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement, maternity of care, call 855-774-LIFE (5433) Cone Health’s Alamance Regional Medical Center, Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center, care, spine surgery Burlington: Winston-Salem: or visit AdventHealth.com knee and hip replacement, maternity care knee and hip replacement, maternity care, spine WakeMed Raleigh Campus, surgery knee and hip replacement, maternity care, Cone Health’s The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospi- spine surgery tal, Greensboro: Novant Health Kernersville, Wayne UNC Health Care, Goldsboro: cardiac care, knee and hip replacement, spine surgery bariatric surgery maternity care Cone Health’s Wesley Long Hospital, Greensboro: Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, bariatric surgery, knee and hip replacement maternity care Formerly Park Ridge Health MARCH 2019 57 NORTH CAROLINA’S U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT BEST HOSPITALS TOP-PERFORMING

Hospitals listed here are ranked regionally or nationally by U.S. TAR HEEL News & World Report, which assesses performance in various adult specialties and selected lower-acuity procedures that require a reduced level of care. Patient survival is weighted heaviest, while safety, staffing and other factors are also HOSPITALS considered. ABDOMINAL AORTICAORTIC ANEURYSM VALVECANCER SURGERY REPAIRCARDIOLOGYCHRONIC / HEART OBSTRUCTIVE SURGERYCOLON PULMONARYCANCERDIABETES SURGERY DISEASE / EAR,ENDOCRINOLOGY NOSE ANDGASTROENTEROLOGY THROATGERIATRICS / GI GYNECOLOGYSURGERY HEART BYPASSHEART SURGERY FAILUREHIP REPLACEMENTKNEE REPLACEMENTLUNG CANCERNEPHROLOGY SURGERYNEUROLOGYOPTHALMOLOGY / NEUROSURGERYORTHOPEDICSPULMONOLOGYRHEUMATOLOGYUROLOGY Novant Health Medical Winston- Park Hospital Salem •

Novant Health Presbyte- rian Medical Center Charlotte ••••• Nationally ranked National rank # Southeastern Health Lumberton •• High performing in this specialty or procedure ABDOMINALAORTIC AORTIC ANEURYSM VALVECANCER SURGERY REPAIRCARDIOLOGYCHRONIC / HEART OBSTRUCTIVE SURGERYCOLON PULMONARYCANCERDIABETES SURGERY DISEASE / EAR,ENDOCRINOLOGY NOSE ANDGASTROENTEROLOGY THROATGERIATRICS / GI GYNECOLOGYSURGERY HEART BYPASSHEART SURGERY FAILUREHIP REPLACEMENTKNEE REPLACEMENTLUNG CANCERNEPHROLOGY SURGERYNEUROLOGYOPTHALMOLOGY / NEUROSURGERYORTHOPEDICSPULMONOLOGYRHEUMATOLOGYUROLOGY UNC Hospitals Chapel Hill 36 •• 10 20 • 45 ••• 26 ••• Atrium Health’s Carolinas HealthCare System Concord •• NorthEast UNC Rex Healthcare Raleigh •••••••• Atrium Health’s Carolinas Charlotte 41 UNC Rockingham Eden Medical Center ••••••••••• •• Health Care •

Atrium Health Pineville Pineville • Vidant Medical Center Greenville ••••• 46 •••••••• 48

Cape Fear Valley Medical Wake Forest Baptist - High High Point Center Fayetteville •• Point Medical Center •• Wake Forest Baptist Winston- CarolinaEast Medical Center New Bern ••• Medical Center Salem •• 19 ••• 30 31 49 •••• 38 47 • 41 •

CaroMont Regional Medical WakeMed Raleigh Raleigh Center Gastonia •• Campus •••••

Catawba Valley Medical Center Hickory •

Cone Health - The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Greensboro •••••••••• Duke Raleigh Hospital Raleigh •••• LEADING CARE for Duke Regional Hospital Durham •••••• our COMMUNITY. Duke University Hospital Durham •• 35 15 •• 39 39 ••••• 19 32 6 11 17 12 12

FirstHealth Moore ALWAYS. Regional Hospital Pinehurst ••••••••

Iredell Memorial Hospital Statesville •

Johnston Health Smithfield •

Mission Hospital Asheville •••••••••••

Rocky Nash General Hospital Mount •

New Hanover Regional Medical Center Wilmington •••••

North Carolina Specialty Hospital Durham ••

Novant Health Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital Charlotte •• TO LEARN MORE ABOUT

Novant Health Forsyth Winston- all OUR SERVICES visit Medical Center Salem •••• WAYNEUNC.ORG Novant Health Hunters- ville Medical Center Huntersville •

Source: U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals (2018-19), based on American Hospital Association data, Medicare data and physician surveys

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