Healthcare & Medical Services

Highsmith-Rainey Specialty Hospital is the long-term acute care hospital in the Cape Fear Valley Health system, located on Robeson Street just west of downtown Fayetteville. Long-term acute care, often shortened to LTAC, serves patients who no longer need an intensive care unit but still require hospital-level treatment for weeks, such as people weaning from a ventilator, recovering from serious infections or healing complex wounds. The hospital provides 24-hour nursing, physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, pulmonary care and rehabilitation services for those inpatients. It also keeps an outpatient side offering diagnostic radiology, lab work, outpatient surgery and wound care, a closer option for some patients than the system's main medical center on Owen Drive. The Joint Commission has awarded the hospital its Gold Seal of Approval, along with disease-specific certifications in respiratory failure and wound care. Admission is typically arranged by a referring physician or hospital case manager rather than through walk-in visits, so families should start with the care team when planning a transfer.

Fayetteville, NC

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center is North Carolina's 8th largest health system, providing exceptional healthcare services for all patients. Located in Fayetteville, NC, our medical center offers a comprehensive range of specialized services including emergency care, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and advanced surgical procedures. We're proud to serve the military community and Cumberland County residents with state-of-the-art medical care.

Fayetteville, North Carolina

The Fayetteville VA Health Care Center is the large outpatient campus of the Department of Veterans Affairs on South Raeford Road in west Fayetteville. Many people search for it as the Fayetteville VA Medical Center, but that name belongs to the separate VA hospital at 2300 Ramsey Street; both are part of the Fayetteville VA Coastal Health Care System, which VA places in its Veterans Integrated Service Network 6. The Raeford Road center began seeing patients in November 2015, when VA moved clinics off the Ramsey Street campus and two off-site clinics. Services reported at the opening include primary care, mental health care, specialty outpatient clinics and an ambulatory surgery center. VA has also shifted its seasonal flu vaccine operations to this address from the Ramsey Street medical center. The building is a weekday operation, generally open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Veterans must be enrolled in VA health care to schedule appointments; registration information is on the system's website. In an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

Fayetteville, NC

Womack Army Medical Center is the Army hospital on Fort Bragg, serving soldiers, their families, retirees and other eligible TRICARE beneficiaries across the region. The current building opened on March 9, 2000, on a wooded 163-acre site, with more than one million square feet of space and 138 inpatient beds. The hospital is named for Bryant H. Womack, a Medal of Honor recipient, and it traces its roots to the Camp Bragg base hospital built in 1918. Womack cares for more than 160,000 eligible beneficiaries, which makes its patient population among the largest in the Army, and it is a verified Level III trauma center with an emergency department that handles tens of thousands of visits a year. Because the hospital sits inside an active military installation, access rules matter: people without a Department of Defense ID card need visitor access, and Womack directs them to the All American Visitor Control Center at the All American Expressway gate. Fort Bragg also lets visitors carrying REAL ID-compliant identification be scanned at its access control points. Patients being admitted must show a valid military ID to confirm eligibility for military health care.

Fort Bragg, NC