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Cape Fear Hospital

5301 Wrightsville Ave. Wilmington, NC 28403 910-452-8100
Mailing address: P.O. Box 9000 Wilmington, NC 28402

Primary Services

Cape Fear Hospital serves as the New Hanover Regional Medical Center's home for orthopedic services. The Orthopaedic Specialty Center features trained nurses, technicians and surgeons who are board-certified or eligible in orthopedic surgery. The center includes specialists in hand, foot, ankle, and spine, as well as arthroscopic surgeries, sports medicine and joint replacement...more.

Cape Fear also offers:

a 24-hour Emergency Department
inpatient and outpatient surgery
endoscopy
respiratory therapy
rehabilitation medicine
radiology services
laboratory services

Statistics (fiscal year 2008)

Opened: 1957
Licensed beds: 133
Admissions: 4,459
Average daily census: 50
Average length of stay: 4 days
ER visits: 34,493
Inpatient surgeries: 3,227
Outpatient surgeries: 5,471

With a team of surgeons and dedicated staff, the Cape Fear Orthopaedic Specialty Center offers highly trained doctors, nurses and technicians giving advanced and coordinated care.

Delivering more than 3,500 babies a year and providing routine to critical care, the Women's and Children's Services Department offers sophisticated and personal care.

With the only open-heart surgery program in the area, the Coastal Heart Center at New Hanover Regional Medical Center is among the state's leaders in cardiac care.

Powerful new technology and skilled doctors and staff at NHHN are leading the way in imaging services in Southeastern North Carolina.