The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. A distinguishing characteristic of UNC Health Care is its association with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution. This relationship gives UNC Health Care a powerful pathway for moving the results of biomedical research from medical school laboratories to patient care settings. UNC Health Care has been granted broad powers by the North Carolina General Assembly to assure its management flexibility and competitiveness in a rapidly changing health care business environment. The enterprise is governed by a board of directors appointed by the University of North Carolina. |
From well-baby check-ups to chronic disease care to life-saving surgeries to cutting-edge gene therapy, UNC Health Care is improving health and treating disease across North Carolina. In addition to comprehensive medical, surgical and psychiatric care, UNC is a leader in health promotion and disease prevention. UNC Hospitals is the cornerstone of UNC Health Care. People from all 100 North Carolina counties and throughout the Southeast are patients at the 708-bed facility - more than 31,000 each year. And more than 3,500 new Tar Heels are born each year at UNC Hospitals. Since 2002 new babies and their families have been welcomed in the N.C. Children's Hospital and N.C. Women's Hospital, state-of-the-art facilities designed to offer high-quality health care in a comfortable, family-friendly environment. In addition to women's and children's services, UNC delivers the best in interdisciplinary health care to all North Carolinians, male and female, young and old. Specialized patient care services include the Breast Center, Cardiovascular Program, Diabetes Care Center, Lung Center, Rehabilitation Center, Spine Center, Wound Management Program and Comprehensive Transplant Center. The medical center's extensive in arthritis, digestive diseases, endocrinology, ENT, gynecology, hemophilia, infertility, rheumatology, and orthopaedics have achieved both regional and national recognition. And UNC is home to the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of a small number of National Cancer Institute-designated centers in the United States. Construction of the new N.C. Cancer Hospital at UNC Hospitals is now under way, with completion tentatively expected in 2009. UNC Health Care extends beyond Chapel Hill and into the greater Triangle area through its network of primary care and specialty physician practices located in Orange, Wake, Durham, Chatham Lee, Vance and Alamance counties. These offices, in addition to the UNC Family Practice Center and Ambulatory Care Center, provide the basic health care outpatient services most families need, in convenient neighborhood locations. Nearly a half-million people are cared for at UNC practices and clinics each year. |
