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Reviewed 2026-07-02

KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER

Ownership, control, relationships, and source records for KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER.
Ownership receipt

What we can say clearly

KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER is marked as a corporate-chain case. That is separate from direct private-equity ownership, but it still belongs in the red corporate-control color family.

Finding
Corporate-chain ownership/accountability warning
Last reviewed
2026-07-02
Evidence
5 cited sources
Documented warningPart of a corporate hospital chain

KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER has a completed North Carolina state-template dossier baseline with official identity, CMS enrollment/owner context when matched, CMS Care Compare point-in-time context when matched, HCRIS financial/utilization context when matched, and explicit limitations for missing fields. Unsupported ownership, compensation, labor, quality-trend, or causation claims are not inferred.

Corporate-chain ownership/accountability warning
Last verified Jun 2026
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We have not confirmed a Dollar For listing for this facility. This does not mean financial assistance is unavailable.

Control Map

This leads to this

controls
Non ProfitKERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER
operates
Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistKERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER
parent_company_or_controller
Advocate HealthAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Evidence limits

Red color requiredNo CMS enrollment match in automated pass7 ownership sources checked5 total sources below
Direct PE ownershipNot documented as direct PE ownership in this state-template pass
PE relationshipNo documented PE link in current baseline sources
OperatorAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Population servedNeeds system/facility catchment estimate

KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER is connected to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. No public-company shareholder layer. Control context is nonprofit system governance through Advocate Health / Atrium Health. Institutional shareholder names are context only and do not override facility-level ownership evidence.

Review Note

Why this page is published

completed state-template official-source baseline

Publish state-template completion fields while preserving explicit unavailable/searched-not-found limitations.

Ownership & Control

Detailed records, kept below the answer

Facility legal owner, operator, parent company, ultimate controller, PE sponsor, and institutional shareholder context are separate evidence layers.

See the full ownership chain
controlsNon ProfitKERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER

NON-PROFIT is the best available legal-owner or enrolled-operator layer for KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER.

operatesAtrium Health Wake Forest BaptistKERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is shown as the operator or parent-system layer for this facility.

parent_company_or_controllerAdvocate HealthAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Advocate Health is the best available ultimate parent, sponsor, or controller context for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

  • Institutional shareholders such as Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are context nodes only; they are not hospital operators unless direct control evidence is found.
  • CMS owner rows identify enrolled owner/control roles but may not name every ultimate financial sponsor.
  • Sibling/system affiliation does not cause a facility to inherit another hospital’s red status.

Connections

Who owns, backs, staffs, or connects to this facility

Legal-owner layerNON-PROFITFacility legal owner / enrollment layer · legal owner or enrolled operator

NON-PROFIT is shown separately from the parent system and ultimate financial/control context.

Operator layerAtrium Health Wake Forest BaptistLarge nonprofit health system · nonprofit system operator

This connection identifies the operating or system layer used for the public map and dossier.

Parent-company contextAdvocate HealthUltimate parent or controller · ultimate parent / controller context

Advocate Health is shown as the upper control or sponsor context, while the facility-level legal-owner layer remains separate.

Shareholder contextInstitutional shareholders / governance contextShareholder or governance context · context only, not hospital operation

No public-company shareholder layer. Control context is nonprofit system governance through Advocate Health / Atrium Health.

Leadership

Current accountability and official image status

Advocate Health Chief Executive OfficerEugene A. Woods

System-level accountability context for Atrium Health and Atrium Wake Forest Baptist records.

official page has an image, but direct image URL was not captured from the public HTML

System Thread

Connected facilities and system family

  • DAVIE MEDICAL CENTERAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · BERMUDA RUN, NC · connected NC facility
  • HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTHAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · HIGH POINT, NC · connected NC facility
  • KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ERAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · KERNERSVILLE, NC · current record
  • LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTERAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · LEXINGTON, NC · connected NC facility
  • NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITALAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · WINSTON-SALEM, NC · connected NC facility
  • WILKES MEDICAL CENTERAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · NORTH WILKESBORO, NC · connected NC facility

Timeline

Ownership history and events

  1. controls

    NON-PROFIT is the best available legal-owner or enrolled-operator layer for KERNERSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER-ER.

  2. operates

    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is shown as the operator or parent-system layer for this facility.

  3. parent company or controller

    Advocate Health is the best available ultimate parent, sponsor, or controller context for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

  4. operates

    State-template baseline operator/owner context assembled from current hospital fields and matched official sources where available. This is not a new PE ownership claim.

Evidence Notes

Contradictions, limitations, and unavailable fields

Open evidence notes
Limitation

No current CMS enrollment match was found by CCN or unique name/city/state match.

Limitation

No matching CMS Care Compare general-information row was found.

Limitation

No compatible HCRIS cost-report rows were matched to the resolved CCN.

Limitation

This automated NC pass searched mandatory official/source systems and records missing items; it does not claim the entire internet was exhausted.

Limitation

This five-state template completion pass used official cached CMS/HIFLD/PESP/HCRIS sources and records missing items; it does not claim the entire internet was exhausted.

Unavailable

CMS Certification Number

Unavailable

NPI

Unavailable

official CEO image URL

Unavailable

current CMS overall rating

Unavailable

source-backed local CEO/current leader

Unavailable

facility-level CEO compensation amount

Direct connection

Legal/enrollment layer: NON-PROFIT.

Direct connection

Operator layer: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

Direct connection

Ultimate parent/controller context: Advocate Health.

Direct connection

Shareholder/governance context: No public-company shareholder layer. Control context is nonprofit system governance through Advocate Health / Atrium Health.

Direct connection

Operator/owner context: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

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