Centennial Giving Campaign

Over the past year, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist celebrated 100 years of serving the patients and the community with our beginning as North Carolina Baptist Hospital in 1923. We are grateful for the generous philanthropic support from our community. Philanthropy has made it possible for our nurses to continue education as well as provided support to our tiniest patients – our children. As we complete our Centennial Campaign in December 2024, your gifts and support will continue to make a difference in the lives of our patients and those taking care of them.

Enjoy this video and see philanthropic support in action.

100 Years of Caring

North Carolina Baptist Hospital started with a vision and a promise – to be a place of healing and teaching. Along the way, we faced challenges, but our commitment, determination and faith in the power of community kept us focused on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve.

In 1919, a committee within the Baptist State Convention made a promise to identify a location for a medical center in North Carolina. In 1923, they delivered on that promise. When North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened that year, it changed everything for the Winston-Salem community.

Today, the Winston-Salem skyline and our community would be nearly unrecognizable without North Carolina Baptist Hospital (now Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) and the medical facilities known as the “Miracle on Hawthorne Hill.”

Over the last 100 years, the hospital has seen many advances, not only in the number of patients served, but also in buildings, medical care, education and research – all made possible by generous gifts from caring people.

At Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, our mission is to
improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all.
Our vision is to make this the first and best choice for care.
We value people helping people,
working together to ensure a future with accessible health care for every person in need.

Help us meet our mission and vision
as we move into the next 100 years.

Caring For Our Nurses Who Care For Us

When North Carolina Baptist Hospital opened in May 1923, a small staff of registered nurses were ready to serve. In July that same year, the first nursing students arrived at the newly opened School of Nursing. The curriculum included clinical care but also stressed a nurse’s important role in serving the community.

Today, our nursing team fulfills a critical role in our academic learning health care system and continues to serve both our patients and communities. As the primary link between patients and their care teams, nurses build trust, provide care and advocate for their patient’s needs.

By staying up to date on the latest, most effective health care practices, they are able to provide exceptional care. Their depth of knowledge and experience allows them to not only share their skills to help individual patients, but also teach fellow nurses and grow the nursing profession.

When you support our nurses and their ongoing growth, education and development, you help ensure our nurses have what they need to deliver the best possible care:

Continuing education courses
License and certification fees
State and national conferences
Recognitions
Nursing science and research

Caring For Our Youngest Patients

For more than a century, our hospital has been a source of hope and healing for sick and injured children and their families in Winston-Salem and beyond.

With your support, Atrium Health Levine Children's Brenner Children’s Hospital can continue to provide excellent pediatric care for the next 100 years.

We can:

Ease the financial burden for families facing the illness of a child, by helping with the costs of care, transportation and medicine.
Expand programs and services so we can deliver more personalized care for the many illnesses and challenges our patients face.
Provide our pediatric medical professionals the most modern medical equipment and technology available so they can continue to care for our youngest patients.

Together, we can create a future where every child finds health, healing and hope at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.