Tag: 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan

Hospital growth and healthcare needs

Two House members with considerable experience in the healthcare industry don’t find anything too surprising about the big jump in projected acute-care bed needs in the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan. “I would guess that a lot of that is driven by population growth in North Carolina” and the aging of its population, said Rep. […]

Written by on February 13, 2025

Hospital needs

Here at the Trib and Business North Carolina, we’ve been puzzling over the 2025 State Medical Facilities Plan and its 156% increase in the number of acute-care hospital bed it says North Carolina needs. Suffice to say that’s a huge one-year jump, to 1,042 additional beds, 635 more than in the 2024 plan. Just the […]

Written by on February 10, 2025