As part of an academic health system and Level 1 trauma center, AHWFB inpatient rehabilitation therapists work with patients who have experience traumatic and acquired brain injuries and strokes, spinal cord injuries, amputations, multi-trauma accidents, cardiopulmonary interventions and procedures, oncological diagnoses, and various other orthopedic and neurologic conditions. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise.