Wake Forest Baptist Health joins Atrium Health
2020
Winston-Salem
On Oct. 9, 2020, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine officially joined Atrium Health as a single enterprise headquartered in Charlotte.
The combination was first announced in April 2019, and a definitive agreement was signed in October 2019. Atrium Health said Wake Forest Baptist and the medical school would become the academic core of the system, with a planned eye institute in the Innovation Quarter and a new critical care, emergency and surgery tower at the medical center in Winston-Salem.