Trends · data through September 2026

Hospitals in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 266 stores from 191 hospital chains in North Carolina. Physicians East grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Duke Health and Novant Health.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
191
Tracked stores
266
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hospital chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Physicians East and Duke Health sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Physicians East - +14.5%
2 Duke Health ▲1 -0.2%
3 Novant Health - -5.8%
4 Atrium Health - -12.9%
5 Champion Heart and Vascular Center - -46.6%
6 Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist ▼1 -63.2%
  • Novant Health
  • UNC Health Care
  • Atrium Health
  • Duke Health
  • Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
  • First health
  • Cape Fear Valley
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

266 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 70 of the 266 stores (26%); 178 of the 191 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hospitals, the same share as across the United States.

  • Novant Health (33)
  • UNC Health Care (5)
  • Atrium Health (9)
  • Duke Health (17)
  • Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (6)
  • First health (2)
  • Cape Fear Valley (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Novant Health 33
  • 2 Duke Health 17
  • 3 Atrium Health 9
  • 4 Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 6
  • 5 UNC Health Care 5
  • 6 Champion Heart and Vascular Center 3
  • 7 Physicians East 3
  • 8 Mecklenburg Neurology 2
  • 9 Carolinas Natural Health Center 2
  • 10 Haywood Regional Medical Center 2
  • 11 Womack Army Medical Center 2
  • 12 Cape Fear Valley 2
  • 13 First health 2
  • 14 Blue Ridge Health Center 1
  • 15 Mission My Care Now 1
  • 16 Mecklenburg Neurology Group 1
  • 17 Cary Adult Medicine 1
  • 18 ECU Health Employee Clinic 1
  • 19 ECU Health Chowan Hospital 1
  • 20 Ashe Memorial Hospital 1
  • 21 Duke Medicine Pavilion 1
  • 22 Wake Family Medicine 1
  • 23 Murphy Medical Center 1
  • 24 High Country Neurology 1
  • 25 Hazelwood Family Medicine 1
  • 26 CarePartners Rehabilitation Hospital 1
  • 27 Medical Arts Center 1
  • 28 Ocracoke Health Center 1
  • 29 Wilmington Health Neurology 1
  • 30 CaroMont Psychiatric Associates 1
  • 31 Dosher Memorial Hospital 1
  • 32 Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center 1
  • 33 Carolina Pain Associates 1
  • 34 Westside Obgyn 1
  • 35 Rutherford Surgical Associates 1
  • 36 NH Memory Care 1
  • 37 Broadview Health PLLC. 1
  • 38 FirstHealth Back & Neck 1
  • 39 Southeastern Health Center-Clarkton 1
  • 40 Ortho & Sports HP 1
  • 41 Duke Childrens Hospital 1
  • 42 CaroMont Internal Medicine 1
  • 43 Chatham Hospital 1
  • 44 Davie Medical Center 1
  • 45 Oncology Specialist of Charlotte 1
  • 46 Medical Center High Point - Patrick Wright MD 1
  • 47 Lyndhurst Gynecology-King NC 1
  • 48 Wilmington Health Radiology 1
  • 49 UNC Rockingham Health Care 1
  • 50 Pinehurst Medical 1

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