North Carolina Specialty Hospital (NCSH), is a private, physician-owned medical center that opened its doors in 1926. North Carolina Specialty Hospital has 18 licensed beds, 9 observation beds and treated 11,489 patients in 2011 (1,620 were treated for inpatient procedures and the remaining 9,869 were treated on an outpatient basis). North Carolina Specialty Hospital offers surgical specialties in orthopedics, ophthalmology, ear, nose and throat as well as sports medicine, oral, plastic, podiatry, general, bariatric, interventional radiology, pain management, and reconstructive surgery.