The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control recently decided in a 3-2 vote not to review its decision, which awarded a certificate of need to Carolinas to develop a $77.5 million hospital in Fort Mill and left Tenet and Novant out of the picture, according to the report. Tenet currently operates Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, S.C., and Novant operates Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, N.C.
Tenet said it will appeal the decision, which it had previously done in the lower courts, and now the case will go to the S.C. Administrative Law Court, the report said. Novant did not say if it would appeal the decision.
The three systems have been battling for rights to develop a new facility in Fort Mill since 2004, when the state determined Fort Mill needed a 64-bed hospital. Tenet originally won the bid, but the other parties appealed.
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