Here are five things to know:
1. The 2024 State Medical Facilities Plan found a need for 38 acute-care beds in North Carolina’s Durham, Caswell and Warren service areas. UNC Health’s Sept. 26 CON approval shared plans to add no more than 38 additional acute-care beds to the new hospital for a total of 112 beds.
2. This is the third CON approval that UNC Health has received from the state, with the first CONs still under appeal, a spokesperson for UNC Health told Becker’s.
3. Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital, part of Duke Health, also filed a plan to add 38 additional acute-care beds to its hospital for a total of more than 1,100 upon completion of the project, which was denied by the state. “We are reviewing the agency findings and evaluating our options,” a Duke Health spokesperson said in an Oct. 16 statement shared with Becker’s.
4. “UNC Health remains committed to expanding access to much-needed care by building a community hospital in RTP, one of the fastest-growing regions of the state,” the spokesperson said.
5. The last day to appeal the state’s approval of UNC Health’s plan is Oct. 28, the CON said.
Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 16 at 2:57 p.m. CT.
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