Brenner Children's Hospital is a children's hospital

Children's hospital

A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children . The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties...

 in Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...

, North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

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The Brenner Children's Hospital is dedicated to tertiary

Tertiary

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 pediatric care with specialty children's services such as chronic disease treatment

Therapy

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, cancer

Cancer

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/acute leukemia

Acute leukemia

Acute leukemia or acute leukaemia is a generic term used to describe a family of serious medical conditions relating to an original diagnosis of leukemia...

 treatment, and infant

Infant

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 and child

Child

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 cardiothoracic surgery

Cardiothoracic Surgery

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. The hospital provides holistic, family-centered care to patients from birth to age 18.

Affiliated with Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...

, it is the pediatric arm of North Carolina Baptist Hospital.