A teaching and regional referral center, New Hanover Regional Medical Center offers specialty medical and surgical care and includes freestanding rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals. New Hanover Regional has one of 10 trauma centers in the state certified at Level II or above and one of 12 neonatal intensive care units.
Other specialty services include four adult intensive care units, inpatient pediatrics services, open-heart surgery, cardiac catheterization and designated teaching cancer program.
The medical center has 18 operating rooms, including an endovascular room that is one of just a few of its kind in the nation.