New Hanover Regional Medical Center s plan to expand into the fast-growing Scotts Hill and Porters Neck areas with a new hospital has hit a big regulatory bump.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has denied New Hanover s certificate of need application for the project. According to the department s website, the state requires healthcare providers to obtain permission from the agency before developing or offering a new institutional health service.
The certificate of need application was filed in September after New Hanover s Board of Trustees approved spending $210 million to build the Scotts Hill Community Hospital. It raises a number of questions, said Harper Peterson, a former state senator and former mayor of Wilmington who has been critical of the county selling New Hanover Regional, of the state s decision.
State rejects NHMRCâs bid to build hospital in Scotts Hill
State rejects NHMRCâs bid to build hospital in Scotts Hill By WECT Staff | February 22, 2021 at 12:30 PM EST - Updated February 22 at 5:16 PM
NEW HANOVER CO., N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover Regional Medical Centerâs application to build a 66-bed facility in Scotts Hill has been denied by the state.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Services rejected NHRMCâs application for the $210 million project.
In its findings, the state wrote in a Feb. 9 letter:
âThe applicant does not adequately demonstrate the need to develop 36 new acute care beds and to relocate 30 existing acute care beds, eight existing ORs, and other existing assets to develop a new hospital campus.â
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