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Carolinas HealthCare System (www.carolinashealthcare.org) is the largest healthcare system in the Carolinas, and the third largest public system in the nation. CHS owns, leases or manages 20 hospitals in North and South Carolina, and employs some 900 physicians who practice in more than 150 locations. CHS also operates nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, radiation therapy facilities and physical therapy facilities. Together, these operations comprise approximately 4,900 licensed beds and employ more than 33,000 full-time or part-time employees. CHS's flagship facility is Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, an 861-bed hospital which includes a Level I trauma center, a research institute, a children's hospital, a rehabilitation facility and a large number of specialty treatment units (heart, cancer, organ transplant, etc.). CMC also serves as one of North Carolina's five Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing residency training for over 200 physicians in 15 specialties. Carolinas Medical Center has been named the "Consumer's Choice Preferred Hospital" in the Charlotte market by the National Research Corporation nine times. U.S. News & World Report named CMC to its 2007-2008 ranking of "America's Best Hospitals" for urology and orthopedics. HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent healthcare ratings company, rated CMC as best in the Charlotte area for overall cardiac services, and among the top five in North Carolina. CMC is also the first hospital in North Carolina to be recognized by J.D. Power and Associates for service excellence in maternity care. In the fall of 2007, the 234-bed Levine Children's Hospital will open on the CMC campus.