Wilmington, North Carolina and the entire southern coast area offers excellent healthcare facilities and services across the spectrum. For most of this century, residents generally went inland to more sophisticated medical facilities in search of state-of-the-art technology to treat serious illness. That trend has changed and even reversed itself as inlanders now come here for exceptional healthcare services.

Active area physicians, numbering more than 362 in Wilmington and New Hanover County, have access to some of the most technologically progressive facilities and equipment in the state by way of the two larger hospitals that serve the area.

Several small hospitals dot the southern coast. Care beyond the scope of their services is referred to Wilmington's larger hospitals, but these smaller facilities also offer excellent healthcare for a broad range of medical services. Vacationers along the Brunswick Beaches and Topsail Island may find these smaller hospitals more convenient for medical services.

Thus, the entire spectrum of health care services is available in the Wilmington and southern coast area.