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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 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has monitored NIH funding to Medical Schools as well as other health science schools and organizations since 2006. [10] BRIMR generates an annual ranking of NIH funding for US Medical Schools and their Departments [11] and the BRIMR data is considered to be the gold standard for medical school research metrics. [12]
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 Medical Center (UNCMC) is a 932-bed [1] non-profit, nationally ranked, public, research and academic medical center located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, providing tertiary care for the Research Triangle, surrounding areas and North Carolina.
Founded in 1969, Blue Ridge Community College is a public two-year post-secondary community college with three campuses located in North Carolina's Henderson County and Transylvania County. These locations include the Henderson County Campus in Flat Rock , the healthcare-focused Health Sciences Center in Hendersonville , and the Transylvania ...
Before Jonas Ridge is the Brown Mountain Overlook, where stories of phantom lights on the mountain can be seen from the location. After Jonas Ridge, the highway goes parallel with the Blue Ridge Parkway for a mile before passing over it. In Pineola, the highway overlaps with US 221 for almost three miles (4.8 km) before splitting in Linville.
Daniel H. Johnson is a former assistant district attorney in Wake County, North Carolina and a veteran of the United States Navy who received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for saving the life of a crewmate on the USS Blue Ridge in 1999. As a result of that incident, both of Johnson's legs were amputated below the knee.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.