Tag: Children’s hospital

House, Senate split over NCInnovation funding and children’s hospital investment

It appears the Senate and the House have very different ideas about how to wind down the state’s involvement with NCInnovation — and about how to spin up its involvement in a new children’s hospital. The first pieces of the House’s budget counterproposal for the 2025-27 biennium emerged in appropriations subcommittees on Thursday. The full document is […]

Written by on May 19, 2025

Berger on the children’s hospital

The Senate’s budget, passed on Friday, contains $638 million in additional state spending for the new children’s hospital the UNC and Duke health systems are planning to build somewhere in the Triangle. Counting prior appropriations, this will bring the total state subsidy for the project to $855 million. And if you’re wondering if that’s as […]

Written by on April 18, 2025