Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has received state approval to move forward with a 46-bed hospital in Mebane. The hospital will be the health system’s fifth acute care hospital.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services approved Cone Health’s certificate of need application to build the $220 million hospital. It will include 15 emergency department bays, three operating rooms, one C-section operating room, two procedure rooms, three obstetric labor and delivery beds, and seven observation beds, along with imaging and ancillary services.
The hospital is projected to open in April 2029.
“Cone Health has successfully helped meet the health care needs of eastern Alamance County close to home for more than a dozen years,” Cone Health Interim CEO Bernie Sherry said in a Sept. 23 news release. “This hospital will strengthen our ability to serve the community and ensure access to care for generations to come.”
Cone Health’s application beat out a competing proposal from Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health and Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, which also sought approval to build a new hospital in Mebane.
Risant Health, a nonprofit created by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, acquired Cone Health last year.
