Carolinas Medical Center

Carolinas Medical Center

In May 1970, the organ Transplant program began with the first cadaveric kidney transplant performed by Dr. Don Mullen and Dr. Dale Ensor. This was one of the first transplants in the USA done outside a medical school setting. A year later, Mullen and Ensor performed the first living related transplant.[2]^{[full citation needed]}

Dr. Francis Robicsek performed the first

In 2007, the multistory Levine Children's Hospital was completed and opened, making it the second largest children's hospital in the Southeastern United States, after Washington, D.C.

In 2010, the

On July 28, 2011, Becker's Hospital Review listed Carolinas Medical Center under 60 Hospitals with Great Orthopedic Programs.^[5]

In October 2020, Wake Forest School of Medicine and Atrium Health began an agreement to make Carolinas Medical Center one of its flagship teaching hospitals along with the creation of a Charlotte campus of its medical school.^[6]

In July 2023, Carolinas Medical Center broke ground on a nearly $900 million, 1.1 million square foot expansion that includes an emergency center and 484 new patient rooms, 38 operating rooms, and 16 procedure rooms to be completed in 2027. ^[7]

Today, Carolinas Medical Center is the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and part of

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• Carolinas Medical Center
• Original Charlotte Memorial Hospital in 1940
• Charlotte Memorial Hospital in 1972