Novant Health Inc. is looking westward for its next North Carolina expansion market, hoping to establish a fourth urban hub in the state, The Winston Salem Journal reports.
The Winston-Salem health care system applied June 15 for permission to build a $328.73 million community hospital campus to serve the greater Asheville area. Novant already has an imaging center in the market.
The 2022 state Medical Facilities Plan listed a need for 67 acute-care hospital beds to cover Buncombe, Graham, Madison and Yancey counties, likely by 2024.
A need for additional acute-care beds is determine foremost by state health regulators based on a county’s growth rate.
Novant has the top market share in the Winston-Salem and Wilmington metro areas, while trailing Atrium Health in the Charlotte metro. Read more.
