Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, N.C., was approved for its $246 million Greensboro, N.C., hospital by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ certificate-of-need division, according to Becker’s.
The move has been opposed by Greensboro-based Cone Health and Winston-Salem-based Novant Health. Cone Health’s CEO expressed concern about whether the hospital was aimed at improved patient access or boosting profit margins.
Cone Health said that the hospital plans to appeal the decision.
The hospital will have to begin operations by July 26, 2024, according to the approval. It will relocate no more than 36 acute care beds and two operating rooms from High Point Medical Center, of which it will be a licensed campus. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist will be able to develop “no more than 12 unlicensed observation beds, two procedure rooms, 20 emergency department bays, two fixed CT scanners, one general radiology X-ray unit, one fluoroscopy X-ray unit, two ultrasound units, one SPECT scanner, one mammography unit and one fixed MRI,” the Department of Health and Human Services said. Read more.
