The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control has been ordered to reevaluate applications from Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, SC; Presbyterian Healthcare in Charlotte, N.C.; and Carolinas HealthCare in Charlotte.
In 2006, the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control awarded a certificate of need to Piedmont to build a 100-bed Fort Mill facility, but Presbyterian and Carolinas HealthCare appealed the decision. Last month, an administrative judge ruled in favor of two appealing health systems, stating that DHEC “failed to review the Fort Mill applications in accordance with South Carolina’s certificate-of-need law,” according to the report.
Piedmont is now proposing a $125 million, 288-bed hospital, while Presbyterian is proposing a smaller $83 million, 64-bed hospital. Details on the latest Carolinas HealthCare proposal were not included in the report.
Each health system must submit revised plans to the state by Feb. 8, according to the report.
Read the Charlotte Business Journal’s report on the Fort Mill, S.C. hospital proposals.
