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The hospital is a Level 1 trauma center serving the entire Piedmont region of North Carolina. It also houses North Carolina's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, as well as a pediatric Emergency Department, and pediatric and neonatal intensive-care units. It is also home to AirCare, the hospital's critical care transport service that operates both ground ambulances and a helicopter at the critical care level.
Wake Forest School of Medicine closely aligns its academic and research missions with clinical work, providing patients with leading-edge technology and clinical trials.
The Wake Forest Innovations division operates Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, a mixed-use center in downtown Winston-Salem that is a hub for some of the world's foremost biomedical science and information technology research. A key tenant in the park is the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), which is working to engineer replacement tissues and organs and develop healing cell therapies for more than 30 different areas of the body.
Wake Forest Baptist Health operates 15 free-standing, outpatient dialysis centers, which are located throughout the Triad and the Western Piedmont region, allowing patients to access dialysis services close to home; it is the largest academically owned and operated dialysis operation in the country. In 2012, a Joslin Diabetes Center opened at one of Wake Forest Baptist Health's locations in Winston-Salem, offering multidisciplinary care to diabetes patients; Joslin is an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, an international leader in diabetes research, care and education. Wake Forest Baptist Health also operates a network of subsidiaries and affiliate hospitals including Wake Forest Baptist Health—Lexington Medical Center, a 94-bed acute-care facility in Lexington, N.C., and Wake Forest Baptist Health—Davie Hospital, a 25-bed hospital in Mocksville, N.C.
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