The fate of a hospital expansion project planned for Buncombe County, NC, is now in the hands of the NC Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service Regulation, Blue Ridge Public Radio reports.
The N.C. 2022 State Medical Facilities Plan, released earlier this year determined Buncombe, Graham, Madison and Yancey counties will have a projected need of 67 additional acute care beds by 2024.
Three healthcare systems are in the running: Florida-based nonprofit Advent Health which operates a hospital in Hendersonville, Nashville-based HCA Healthcare which operates Mission Hospital System and Winston Salem-based Novant Health, which operates hospitals in parts of center North Carolina and in South Carolina. Read more.
