Carolinas HealthCare System includes 32 affiliated hospitals in North and South Carolina. As one of the leading healthcare systems in the Southeast, Carolinas HealthCare employs some 1,500 physicians and serves patients at more than 500 care locations including physician practices, nursing homes, surgical and rehabilitation centers, home health agencies and other facilities. Together, these operations comprise more than 6,300 licensed beds and employ some 48,000 people.
Carolinas Medical Center is our flagship facility with an 874-bed hospital in Charlotte that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a research institute and numerous specialty units (heart, cancer, organ transplant, behavioral health, etc.). CMC also serves as one of North Carolina's five Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing graduate medical education for more than 250 physicians in 18 specialties.
Levine Children's Hospital, also in Charlotte, has been recognized as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S.News & World Report. Other CMC hospitals have also been honored by J.D. Power and Associates for maternity, emergency and inpatient services. Carolinas HealthCare's "community benefit," which includes the value of indigent care, uncompensated medical services, education, research and charitable contributions, totals more than $835 million annually.
Carolinas HealthCare also includes CMC-NorthEast in Concord, a 457-bed medical center which is home to the Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital.