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\"Mahec\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Established nearly five decades ago, MAHEC \u2013 Mountain Area Health Education Center \u2013 is a leader in healthcare, education, and innovation. Headquartered in Asheville with satellite offices in various locations across its 16-county Western North Carolina (WNC) service area, MAHEC is the largest of nine Area Health Education Centers in North Carolina. With more than 1,100 employees we are the largest non-profit in WNC.<\/p>\n

Our mission is to recruit, train and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina, with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources.<\/p>\n

MAHEC trains physicians and dentists to provide evidence-based patient-centered compassionate healthcare. Our UNC-appointed faculty physicians and dentists are dedicated mentors, community health advocates, and compassionate physicians. The faculty and residents provide care in\u00a0family medicine<\/a>,\u00a0internal medicine<\/a>,\u00a0ob\/gyn<\/a>,\u00a0dental<\/a>, and\u00a0psychiatric care<\/a>\u00a0through more than 179,000 annual patient visits.<\/p>\n

Last year, MAHEC had over 98,000 continuing professional development participants in a variety of health professions from across WNC and the nation in attendance at over 700\u00a0educational programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MAHEC\u2019s 14-acre Biltmore campus is also home to UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC, an academic health center in partnership with UNC-Chapel Hill that includes programs from the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and UNC Adams School of Dentistry.\u00a0A private, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, MAHEC will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024. 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