The House’s property-tax committee is scrutinizing the tax breaks North Carolina gives its nonprofit hospitals, but a couple of its rank-and-file members are speaking up against the idea of making major changes. Legislative staffers on Wednesday told the panel the property and sales-tax breaks the hospitals receive cost city and county governments across the state a […]
Novant Health says its $336.4 million proposal to build a 50-bed acute-care hospital on the southwestern outskirts of Kannapolis is partially intended to bring some much-needed competition to the region health-care sector. Its construction would offer “a vital alternative to Atrium Health,” which is currently “the sole provider of acute care” services in Cabarrus County, […]
Medical providers have filed new certificate-of-need applications that could result in almost $772 million of capital spending if all their projects get approved by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. Four projects out of the 27 would account for the bulk of the cost: Novant Health wants to build a 50-bed acute-care hospital in […]
Back in August, we reported that the state’s nursing and medical boards were jointly considering a rules change, requested by Duke Health and Atrium Health, to allow some nurses more latitude to deal with end-of-life situations. The proposal would give registered nurses and licensed practical nurses authority to issue do-not-resuscitate orders and pronounce a patient’s […]
North Carolina’s certificate of need law could be living on borrowed time, in the fervent hopes of some doctors and conservative groups, but for now it’s still in place and still something the healthcare sector has to reckon with. The state Department of Health and Human Services received 20 applications in October for certificates that […]
