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BEST HOSPITALS HOSPITAL HEADQUARTERS BEDS SCORE 1 Rex Hospital Raleigh 665 49 2 CaroMont Regional Medical Center Gastonia 435 48 Mission Hospital 4 Carolinas Medical Center Duke University Hospital 6 Carolinas Medical Center-University WakeMed Raleigh Campus 8 New Hanover Regional Medical Center Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Asheville 730 48 Charlotte 874 46 Durham 942 46 Charlotte 130 44 Raleigh 678 44 Wilmington 628 43 Charlotte 622 43 UNC Hospitals Chapel Hill 801 43 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem 885 43 12 Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast High Point Regional Hospital Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 15 Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy Concord 457 42 High Point 384 42 Huntersville Charlotte 75 42 162 41 Duke Regional Hospital Durham 369 41 Novant Health Matthews Medical Center Matthews 117 41 18 CarolinaEast Medical Center Duke Raleigh Hospital New Bern 350 40 Raleigh 186 40 The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Greensboro 529 40 Vidant Medical Center Greenville 861 40 Lumberton 452 38 22 Southeastern Regional Medical Center 23 FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Pinehurst 395 37 Winston-Salem 921 37 25 Cape Fear Valley Medical Center Fayetteville 600 36 26 Alamance Regional Medical Center Burlington 238 35 Northern Hospital of Surry County Mount Airy 133 35 Novant Health Rowan Medical Center Salisbury 268 35 Cary 156 35 30 Frye Regional Medical Center WakeMed Cary Hospital Hickory 355 34 31 Carolinas Medical Center-Lincoln Lincolnton 101 32 Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital Hendersonville 222 32 Carteret General Hospital Morehead City 135 32 Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Elkin 220 32 Nash General Hospital Rocky Mount 282 32 36 Albemarle Hospital Carolinas Medical Center-Union Elizabeth City 182 31 Monroe 254 31 Randolph Hospital Asheboro 145 31 Scotland Memorial Hospital Laurinburg 104 31 Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center Thomasville 146 31 41 Catawba Valley Medical Center Hickory 258 30 Kings Mountain 102 30 MedWest Haywood Hospital Clyde 189 30 Granville Medical Center Oxford 62 30 Kings Mountain Hospital Stanly Regional Medical Center Albemarle 119 30 Vidant Edgecombe Hospital Tarboro 117 30 Wayne Memorial Hospital Goldsboro 316 30 Brunswick Novant Medical Center Supply 74 30 49 Park Ridge Health Cleveland Regional Medical Center Hendersonville 103 29 Shelby 241 29 Based on Medicare and Medicaid data, North Carolina Hospital Association and other sources for 13 weighted criteria such as patient satisfaction; death rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia; patient-safety records and hospital-acquired conditions for procedures such as heart and vascular surgery, joint replacements and female reproductive surgery; and independent, experience-based data compiled by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, The Leapfrog Group and U.S. News & World Report. N ORT H C A R OL I N A E CON OMI C D E V E LO P M E N T GU I D E 79