The University of North Carolina Hospitals is a tertiary care center of approximately 650 beds that each year records more than 21,000 admissions and nearly 300,000 outpatients visits. Since opening in 1952, it has become one of the region's largest teaching and referral hospitals. It also serves as a source of primary care for people in the local community.

The hospital serves as an important channel for information and consultation between the physicians of North Carolina and the faculty of the UNC School of Medicine, most of whom serve on the hospital's medical staff. Physicians throughout the state may call the hospital's Carolina Consultation Center toll-free at any time to discuss a patient care problem with any member of the medical faculty.

As part of its concern with community health care, the University of North Carolina Hospitals works closely with local, federally funded outreach clinic and with several retirement communities and nursing homes. It also has developed a Primary Care Center in internal medicine and a model Family Practice Center, both of which serve the dual functions of providing care for the community and programs for education and research.

The University of North Carolina Hospitals has an attending staff of 560 physicians and a house staff of 425. it is accredited for residencies in anesthesiology, dermatology, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, nuclear medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, radiation therapy, radiology, and surgery (including surgical subspecialties).

Both the hospital and the School of Medicine are part of the Division of Health Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill, which also includes the schools of dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and public health and the Health Sciences Library.

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