About Lexington Medical Center

As part of Wake Forest Baptist Health, Lexington Medical Center (LMC) has the resources of a nationally recognized academic medical center at its doorstep, enabling the facility to offer world-class health care here, close to home. Lexington Medical Center is a not-for-profit facility licensed with 94 acute care beds. The medical center's specialty services include orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, ENT/head and neck surgery and cancer care. Our outpatient expertise includes digestive health services, a state-of-the-art rehabilitation department, a diagnostic imaging center and wound care center.

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Lexington Medical Center has been providing for the healthcare needs of Davidson County since the 1920s when a 4-story, 80-bed hospital was built by the community, for the community. In the coming years the community experienced rapid population growth and quickly outgrew the existing space.  In 1946, money was once again raised by the community for new land and building space for the continued growth of Lexington Memorial Hospital.  This new location served the community well into the late 1970s when the daily inpatient census frequently exceeded 100 percent noting that it was time to move again. By 1977, a full-fledged campaign began and more than $1.5 million was raised by the community toward the total $7.5 million needed to construct the new facility.  Land in the heart of Lexington was purchased and construction began for a one-story 100-bed facility that was completed in September 1979.

The hospital remains in that Hospital Drive location today.  Many improvements and expansions have been made over its 40 year history but none as expansive as the new Surgical Services Facility that opened in September 2019. This $31.5 million dollar expansion includes four state-of-the-art operating rooms, a cystoscopy suite for urology procedures, an expanded family waiting area, family consult rooms and nine post-operative recovery bays.

With the decline of births in the county, the medical center closed its Labor and Delivery department in April 2020 and now encourages all patients to deliver at The Birth Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.  Plans for these patient rooms are underway and Women’s Services – Lexington, our OB/GYN clinic added a specialized surgeon for total women’s care.  

In early, a Pediatric Sleep Lab was also added to the medical center’s list of services, becoming the region’s only location for overnight sleep studies for children. During the Covid-19 pandemic Wake Forest Baptist Health had a need to shift outpatient and surgical services throughout system.  Surgeons began traveling to perform additional surgical cases at Lexington Medical Center utilizing the new state-of-the-art surgical facility. LMC has now become a second location for the Wake Forest School of Medicine’s Urology Residence Program.   

The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission and most recently received the Leapfrog Safety Award “Grade A” for their commitment to quality and safety in all aspects of patient care.  In addition, for the past four years, the medical center has been ranked in the top 10 among the top-performing community hospitals from across the country for superior quality and safety performance.
The Wake Forest Baptist Health Lexington Medical Center campus is home to 14 additional clinics from pediatrics and family medicine to adult specialty clinics such as Women’s Services, cardiology and orthopaedic care.  

The Wake Forest Baptist Health Lexington Medical Center campus is home to 14 additional clinics from pediatrics and family medicine to adult specialty clinics such as Women’s Services, cardiology and orthopaedic care.