Creating a “Silicon Valley” for health innovation where physicians, inventors, scientists and visionaries will collaborate on new technologies, techniques and treatments that improve people’s lives.
Expanding virtual care capabilities across the region, making care more accessible and affordable for more than 7 million people living in both rural and urban areas currently served by Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health.
Coordinating efforts to advance large, multi-site, patient-centered research collaborations in high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, vascular disease and other conditions that affect millions of Americans.
Transforming the research work in ground-breaking healthy aging, mobility and Alzheimer’s disease, preparing for the one in five U.S. residents who will be over age 65 by 2035, by helping this important population become healthier as they age with a better quality of life.
Combining Atrium Health’s “for all” mission and overall expertise in delivering behavioral health via telemedicine innovations with Wake Forest Baptist’s track record of behavioral health expertise and counseling across the state, opening the door to solving one of the greatest medical challenges facing the state today.

Providing health, hope and healing for all as the largest provider for Medicaid recipients and other vulnerable, underserved populations across North Carolina and as a nationally recognized leader in addressing and improving social determinants of health – such as food insecurity and affordable housing – in the communities it serves.

About Atrium Health
Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health outcomes through innovative research, education and compassionate patient care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atrium Health is an integrated, nonprofit health system with over 55,000 teammates at nearly 40 hospitals and hundreds of care locations throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. Atrium Health provides top-ranked pediatric, cancer and heart care to patients, as well as specialized musculoskeletal programs and organ transplants. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals for cancer treatment and in eight different pediatric specialties, it has also received the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize and was the recipient of the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. Its flagship hospital, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, is the region’s only Level I trauma center and is consistently rated among the nation’s best. Atrium Health is also a leading-edge innovator in virtual care and mobile medicine, providing care close to home and in the home. With a commitment to every community it serves, Atrium Health seeks to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all. Over the past three years, Atrium Health has provided nearly $2 billion per year in free and uncompensated care and other community benefits.

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