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A health or medical library is designed to assist physicians, health professionals, students, patients, consumers, medical researchers, and information specialists in finding health and scientific information to improve, update, assess, or evaluate health care.
This is a list of hospitals in North Carolina.Five hospitals serve as university-affiliated academic medical centers: Duke University Hospital (Duke University), ECU Health (ECU), UNC Health (UNC), and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center (Wake Forest University), while WakeMed is an unaffiliated Level I trauma center.
UNC Health was created in 1998, when the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that established the UNC Health Care System, bringing under one entity UNC Hospitals and the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine. [1] In 2018, the system reported over 3.5 million outpatient visits and over 500,000 emergency visits. [2]
UNC Medical Center was first proposed in 1948 by Governor Robert Gregg Cherry when picking a location for the UNC School of Medicine. A 400-bed hospital was proposed to be built next to the medical school, and ultimately completed in 1952. [9] The hospital only consisted of North Carolina Memorial Hospital until the new additions of the medical ...
Wilson Library was named for Louis Round Wilson, the university's first librarian, in 1956. [6] Prior to the renaming, the building had been referred to as "the library." [7] Wilson had campaigned for a new library building for most of the 1920s, wanting a building that would house enough books to make it a library of national distinction.
UNC Health Blue Ridge [1] is a not-for-profit hospital located in Morganton, North Carolina, United States, and serving Burke County, North Carolina.The hospital anchors UNC Health Blue Ridge system of healthcare providers that includes other facilities such as Valdese, Grace Ridge Retirement Community, Phifer Wellness Center and other physician practices.
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is a Chicago-based advocate for library professionals and health sciences libraries – primarily in the United States. MLA maintains an online list of ALA -accredited library school programs for those who would like to pursue a master's degree in library and information studies in the US and Canada ( MLIS ).
The Renton Public Library is the King County Library System (KCLS) branch library in Renton, Washington, in the United States.It was a city library between its construction in 1966 and 2010, when it was one of the last three non-KCLS members in the county outside of Seattle and it was incorporated into KCLS after what may have been "the most contentious annexation fight in the system's 71 years".