Tag: UNC Health

Health care systems growth

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 […]

Written by on October 30, 2024

Judges rule against Duke in CON hearing case

Court of Appeals judges also waded into a certificate-of-need dispute between UNC Health and Duke Health, invalidating an administrative law judge’s decision in the matter and sending it back down for further review. The 3-0 ruling didn’t turn on the substance of the quarrel between the two health systems, but on a procedural issue: Whether […]

Written by on September 24, 2024

Wake seeing scramble for new hospital facilities

UNC Health has asked the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services for permission to establish a new, 50-bed hospital in Wake Forest (the town in Wake County, that is, not the university in Winston-Salem). Officials with the health system applied for a certificate of need for the project on Aug. 15. DHHS is taking […]

Written by on September 12, 2024