This is a list of hospitals in North Carolina. Five hospitals serve as university-affiliated Level I trauma Academic medical centers: Duke University Hospital (Duke), ECU Health (ECU), UNC Health (UNC), and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist & Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center (Wake Forest), while Mission Hospital & WakeMed are unaffiliated Level I trauma centers. Twenty hospitals are certified as Critical access hospitals.
The first hospital in the state was a quarantine hospital, built in Wilmington, in 1835, called Mount Tirzah Hospital. The first psychiatric hospital was Dorothea Dix Hospital, built in Raleigh in 1848. The first general hospital established in 1875 was St. Peter's Hospital, located in Charlotte, which later merged into Carolinas Medical Center. Rex Hospital, in Raleigh, opened in 1894 is the oldest continuously operating hospital in the state.
There are 119 hospitals licensed by the State of North Carolina; includes one closed hospital (Martin General Hospital) & eight long-term care facilities. Mecklenburg County has the most hospitals in their county with ten. Twenty counties do not have a hospital. Duke University Hospital has the most general inpatient beds in the state, while Alleghany Health has the fewest.
Hospital list
Name City County Inpatient general beds Trauma designation Affiliation Notes AdventHealth Hendersonville HendersonvilleHenderson 62 AdventHealthFormerly Park Ridge HealthAdventHealth PolkColumbusPolk25AdventHealthFormerly St. Luke's Hospital; Critical access hospital Alleghany HealthSpartaAlleghany 3Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistCritical access hospital; formerly Alleghany Memorial Hospital Angel Medical CenterFranklinMacon 30HCA/MissionCritical access hospital Ashe Memorial HospitalJeffersonAshe 76Novant Health (via Shared Services)Critical access hospital Atrium Health Anson WadesboroAnson 15Atrium HealthAtrium Health CabarrusConcordCabarrus 447Level IIIAtrium Health Teaching hospital.Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center/Center for Mental HealthCharlotteMecklenburg 1064Level IAtrium HealthTeaching hospital. Atrium Health ClevelandShelbyCleveland 288Level IIIAtrium HealthAtrium Health Lake NormanCorneliusMecklenburg36Atrium HealthSatellite hospital campus of Atrium Health University City Atrium Health LincolnLincolntonLincoln 101Atrium HealthAtrium Health MercyCharlotteMecklenburg185Atrium HealthSatellite hospital campus of Carolinas Medical CenterAtrium Health PinevilleCharlotteMecklenburg 350Atrium HealthFormerly Mercy Hospital SouthAtrium Health StanlyAlbemarleStanly97Atrium HealthAtrium Health UnionMonroeUnion 190Atrium HealthTeaching hospital.Atrium Health Union WestMatthewsUnion40Atrium HealthAtrium Health University CityCharlotteMecklenburg 150Atrium HealthAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Davie Medical CenterBermuda RunDavie50Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistTeaching hospital.Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical CenterHigh PointGuilford307Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Lexington Medical CenterLexingtonDavidson94Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical CenterWinston-SalemForsyth850Level IAtrium Health Wake Forest BaptistTeaching hospital.Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical CenterNorth WilkesboroWilkes120Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Blue Ridge Regional HospitalSpruce PineMitchell 46HCA/MissionCritical access hospitalCannon Memorial HospitalLinvilleAvery13UNC Health AppalachianCritical access hospital Cape Fear Valley Betsy Johnson HospitalDunnHarnett 131Cape FearOn license of Harnett Health System. Teaching hospital. Formerly Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital. Cape Fear Valley-Bladen County HospitalElizabethtownBladen 48Cape FearCritical access hospitalCape Fear Valley Central Harnett HospitalLillingtonHarnett50Cape FearOn license of Harnett Health System. Teaching hospital. Formerly Central Harnett Hospital. Cape Fear Valley Hoke HospitalRaefordHoke 41Cape Fear Cape Fear Valley Medical CenterFayettevilleCumberland 636Level IIICape FearTeaching hospital.CarolinaEast Medical CenterNew BernCraven 307CaroMont Regional Medical CenterGastoniaGaston467Level IIICaroMont HealthCarteret General HospitalMorehead CityCarteret 135 Catawba Valley Medical CenterHickoryCatawba 200 Central Carolina HospitalSanfordLee 127Duke LifePoint Columbus Regional Healthcare SystemWhitevilleColumbus 154Atrium HealthCone Health Alamance RegionalBurlingtonAlamance182Cone HealthCone Health Annie Penn HospitalReidsvilleRockingham110Cone HealthCone Health Moses Cone HospitalGreensboroGuilford754Level IICone HealthTeaching hospital. Formerly The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.Cone Health Wesley Long HospitalGreensboroGuilford175Cone HealthDosher Memorial HospitalSouthportBrunswick 25Critical access hospitalDuke Health Lake Norman HospitalMooresvilleIredell123Duke HealthFormerly Lake Norman Regional Medical CenterDuke Raleigh HospitalRaleighWake 204Duke HealthFormerly Raleigh Community HospitalDuke Regional HospitalDurhamDurham 316Duke HealthTeaching hospital.Duke University HospitalDurhamDurham 1106Level IDuke HealthTeaching hospital.ECU Health Beaufort HospitalWashingtonBeaufort 120ECU HealthFormerly Vidant Beaufort HospitalECU Health Bertie HospitalWindsorBertie 6ECU HealthCritical access hospital; formerly Vidant Bertie HospitalECU Health Chowan HospitalEdentonChowan 49ECU HealthCritical access hospital; formerly Vidant Chowan HospitalECU Health Duplin HospitalKenansvilleDuplin 56ECU HealthFormerly Vidant Duplin HospitalECU Health Edgecombe HospitalTarboroEdgecombe 101 ECU HealthFormerly Heritage Hospital, Vidant Edgecombe HospitalECU Health Medical CenterGreenvillePitt847Level IECU HealthTeaching hospital. Formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital & Vidant Medical Center.ECU Health North HospitalRoanoke RapidsHalifax 184ECU HealthFormerly Halifax Regional Medical Center, Vidant North HospitalECU Health Roanoke-Chowan HospitalAhoskieHertford 86 ECU HealthFormerly Vidant Roanoke-Chowan HospitalErlanger Western Carolina HospitalMurphyCherokee57ErlangerCritical access hospital; formerly Murphy Medical Center FirstHealth Montgomery Memorial HospitalTroyMontgomery 37FirstHealthCritical access hospital FirstHealth Moore Regional HospitalPinehurstMoore 337FirstHealth FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital - HokeRaefordHoke 8FirstHealth FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital - Richmond RockinghamRichmond 99FirstHealth Frye Regional Medical CenterHickoryCatawba 209Duke LifePoint Granville Medical Center OxfordGranville 62 Harris Regional HospitalSylvaJackson 86Duke LifePointFormerly MedWest-HarrisHaywood Regional Medical CenterClydeHaywood120Duke LifePointFormerly MedWest-Haywood Highlands-Cashiers HospitalHighlandsMacon 24HCA/MissionCritical access hospitalHugh Chatham Memorial HospitalElkinSurry 81 Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Iredell Davis Medical CenterStatesvilleIredell 102 IredellAlso known as Iredell Davis Behavioral Health Hospital Iredell Memorial HospitalStatesvilleIredell 247 Iredell LifeBrite Community Hospital of StokesDanburyStokes 53LifeBriteCritical access hospital; formerly Pioneer Community Hospital of StokesMaria Parham HealthHendersonVance 161 Duke LifePointTeaching hospital.Mission HospitalAshevilleBuncombe733Level IHCA/MissionTeaching hospital. Mission Hospital McDowell MarionMcDowell 65 HCA/MissionFormerly McDowell HospitalNorth Carolina Specialty HospitalDurhamDurham18 Northern Regional Hospital Mount AirySurry 100 Formerly Northern Hospital of Surry CountyNovant Health Ballantyne Medical CenterCharlotteMecklenburg36Novant HealthNovant Health Brunswick Medical CenterSupplyBrunswick 74Novant HealthNovant Health Forsyth Medical CenterWinston-SalemForsyth 898Novant HealthTeaching hospital. Novant Health Huntersville Medical CenterHuntersvilleMecklenburg151Novant HealthTeaching hospital. Novant Health Kernersville Medical CenterKernersvilleForsyth50Novant HealthOn license of Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Novant Health Matthews Medical CenterMatthewsMecklenburg154Novant Health Novant Health Medical Park HospitalWinston-SalemForsyth9Novant Health Novant Health Mint Hill Medical CenterMint HillMecklenburg36Novant HealthNovant Health New Hanover Regional Medical CenterWilmingtonNew Hanover701Level IINovant Health/NHRMCTeaching hospital.Novant Health Pender Medical CenterBurgawPender43Novant Health / NHRMCCritical access hospital; formerly Pender Memorial HospitalNovant Health Presbyterian Medical CenterCharlotteMecklenburg526Level IINovant Health Novant Health Rowan Medical Center SalisburyRowan203Novant HealthNovant Health Thomasville Medical CenterThomasvilleDavidson 101Novant Health Onslow Memorial HospitalJacksonvilleOnslow162 UNC HealthThe Outer Banks HospitalNags HeadDare 21ECU HealthCritical access hospital Person Memorial HospitalRoxboroPerson 38 Duke LifePoint Randolph Health AsheboroRandolph 145 American Healthcare Systems Rutherford Regional Health System RutherfordtonRutherford 129 Duke LifePoint Sampson Regional Medical Center ClintonSampson 116 Teaching hospital. Scotland Memorial Hospital LaurinburgScotland97Atrium HealthCounts do not include 50 nursing home beds in the Edwin Morgan Center. Scotts Hill Medical Center WilmingtonNew Hanover 66Novant HealthSatellite hospital campus of Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical CenterSentara Albemarle Medical CenterElizabeth CityPasquotank 90 SentaraFormerly Albemarle Hospital Swain Community Hospital Bryson CitySwain 48Duke LifePointCritical access hospital; formerly MedWest-SwainTransylvania Regional HospitalBrevardTransylvania 42HCA/MissionCritical access hospitalUNC Health Blue RidgeMorgantonBurke293Level IIIUNC HealthTeaching hospital. Formerly Grace Hospital, later Carolinas Healthcare System MorgantonCaldwell Memorial HospitalLenoirCaldwell110UNC HealthUNC Health ChathamSiler CityChatham25UNC HealthCritical access hospitalUNC Health JohnstonSmithfieldJohnston179UNC HealthFormerly Johnston Memorial HospitalUNC Health Johnston ClaytonClaytonJohnston50UNC HealthOn license of UNC Health JohnstonUNC Health LenoirKinstonLenoir182UNC HealthFormerly Lenoir Memorial HospitalUNC Health NashRocky MountNash262UNC HealthFormerly Nash General Hospital, later Nash UNC Health CareUNC Health PardeeHendersonvilleHenderson201 Level IIIUNC HealthTeaching hospital. Formerly Pardee UNC Health Care & Margaret R. Pardee Memorial HospitalUNC Health RexRaleighWake489UNC HealthUNC Health Rex Holly SpringsHolly SpringsWake50UNC HealthUNC Health RockinghamEdenRockingham108UNC HealthFormerly Morehead Memorial HospitalUNC Health SoutheasternLumbertonRobeson292UNC HealthTeaching hospital. Formerly Southeastern Regional Medical CenterUNC Health WayneGoldsboroWayne255UNC HealthUNC Hospitals Hillsborough CampusHillsboroughOrange83UNC HealthOn license of UNC Medical CenterUNC Medical CenterChapel HillOrange 916 Level IUNC HealthTeaching hospital.WakeMedRaleighWake664Level IWakeMedTeaching hospital. Formerly Memorial Hospital of Wake County & Wake Medical Center WakeMed Cary Hospital CaryWake208Level IIIWakeMedFormerly Western Wake Medical CenterWakeMed North HospitalRaleighWake61WakeMedOn license of WakeMed Raleigh Washington Regional Medical Center PlymouthWashington 25 Affinity Health PartnersCritical access hospital; formerly Washington County Hospital Watauga Medical Center BooneWatauga117 UNC Health AppalachianTeaching hospital.Wilson Medical CenterWilsonWilson 270 Duke LifePoint
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