WakeMed Health and Hospitals is a 919-bed healthcare system with multiple facilities placed around the metropolitan Raleigh, North Carolina area.

The construction of a publicly financed hospital for Wake County, North Carolina was approved via a voter-authorized bond issue in 1955.

Memorial Hospital of Wake County, today known as WakeMed Raleigh Campus, opened in 1961 with 380 beds and 50 doctors.

Though originally a public hospital, WakeMed is currently a private, not-for-profit corporation that operates many facilities in and around Wake County.

[4] In addition to its three full service hospitals, WakeMed operates several outpatient facilities that include freestanding emergency departments.