Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center is a 36-bed community hospital that opened in 2018 and has rapidly earned national recognition for exceptional performance among small community hospitals. It ranked No. 5 among 206 participating small community hospitals in Vizient’s 2025 “Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Study,” marking the fifth consecutive year of recognition from Vizient. The hospital earned The Leapfrog Group’s 2025 “Top General Hospital Award,” holds an “A” hospital safety grade for fall 2025, and carries an elite “Straight A” designation for five or more consecutive top-scoring cycles. In both 2025 and 2026, Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center was named to Premier Inc.’s “100 Top Hospitals” list and received the “Everest Award” for significant long-term performance improvement over five years, an honor earned by only 17 hospitals nationwide in 2025 and 24 hospitals in 2026. The hospital is among only 36 nationwide recognized jointly by The Leapfrog Group and the American Diabetes Association as “Recognized Leaders in Caring for People Living with Diabetes,” reflecting safe, high-quality inpatient diabetes care. In May 2025, the hospital completed a $45 million emergency department expansion, doubling its size to 44,000 square feet and adding 19 new rooms including trauma bays, behavioral health rooms, and a hybrid procedural space for radiology and cardiology services. The hospital was also among the first in the world to offer MR-guided focused ultrasound, an incisionless procedure for essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease, with one neurosurgeon preparing to complete the 800th such procedure since the program’s inception in 2020.
