Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist provides a variety of community benefits to Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, and northwest North Carolina. Improving health in our community, state, and nation is part of the mission of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Forsyth County’s largest employer and the only academic learning health system in western North Carolina.
The benefits provided by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist take different forms - community outreach, education, research, financial assistance and many other unique efforts to help those in need. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist contributed $1.2 billion in community benefit in 2023. This investment, which equates to $3.3 million per day, includes community outreach, education, research, financial assistance and many other unique efforts to help those in need.
As part of Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system, the $1.2 billion represents a portion of Advocate Health’s $6.05 billion in total community benefit.
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