Industry Bulletins | October 21, 2020
Atrium Health & Wake Forest Baptist Health Merge
Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health, including Wake Forest School of Medicine, merged, and will operate under the name Atrium Health. Eugene A. Woods will serve as president and chief executive officer of the new Atrium Health. The merged system has 42 hospitals and more than 1,500 care locations. A 16-member board of directors appointed by The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (CMHA) and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) will provide governance for the new enterprise through the newly formed non-profit corporation, Atrium Health, Inc. Edward Brown, current board chair of CMHA, will also chair . . .