WakeMed Discontinuing Pacifier Availability and Formula Sample Distribution on Mother’s Day
This Mother’s Day, Sunday, WakeMed Women’s Pavilion & Birthplaces – Raleigh and Cary are taking major steps to become a Baby Friendly hospital as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).  WakeMed is the first hospital in the [...]

ENERGIZE!, WakeMed’s community-based fitness and nutritional education program for teens and pre-teens, has been selected as one of three programs nationwide to qualify for recognition by the Department of Health & Human Services.  We need your help to win this high-profile recognition.  Please visit this web site to vote for ENERGIZE! Voters can only vote [...]

Meteorologists are getting much more accurate predicting when conditions are right for violent storms and tornadoes.  But, what do you do if your area is under a warning or a watch?  The answers are not as simple as you might think, and as we learned during the recent tornadoes there were a lot of questions.  [...]

Enjoy local farm-fresh foods for Mother’s Day Brunch at Market Restaurant to benefit the Farm It Forward program, a community supported agriculture (CSA) program for Wake County citizens who are working to improve their nutrition due to health concerns and who could use extra help financially to make these changes. Through Farm It Forward, needy [...]

Although we will be celebrating throughout the year, yesterday (April 24) was the day WakeMed Raleigh Campus opened to patients 50 years ago in 1961. WRAL spoke with Dr. Atkinson and our longest tenured employee, Betty McGee, who has a mere 47 years of service under her belt.
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This timelapsed video shot from the WakeMed Raleigh Campus Heart Center Helipad shows the April 16 tornado as it passes Yonkers Road, leaving destruction in its wake.

Here’s the same timeframe timelapsed video as seen from the ground helipad in front of the Raleigh Campus Emergency Department.

Families and professionals have different challenges in supporting children after disasters depending on many factors. First, of course, is the degree of impact.  Children who were injured or lost their homes obviously have very different needs from those who had no direct effects but who saw damage in their communities or on TV, or who [...]

WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Wake County’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, treated a total of 47 patients with storm-related injuries this past weekend among its five emergency departments in Raleigh, Cary, North Raleigh and Apex.  Of these patients, 13 of patients remain in the hospital, two were transferred, and 32 have been treated and released.
WakeMed is strongly [...]

WakeMed Health & Hospitals today submitted two Certificate of Need (CON) applications to add 101 beds in as identified in North Carolina’s 2011 State Medical Facilities Plan.  WakeMed is proposing to add 79 acute care beds to Raleigh Campus and 22 acute care beds to Cary Hospital.
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals is pleased to announce it is moving  forward with plans to expand the existing WakeMed North Healthplex into Wake County’s fifth hospital – WakeMed North Hospital.  WakeMed expects to break ground in Fall 2011.
With an anticipated opening date of October 2013, WakeMed North Hospital will be a 61-bed acute care hospital [...]