Novant Health Inc. has gained state regulatory approval to build a fifth community hospital in Mecklenburg County, its sixth hospital overall for that area.
There would be 22 general-use beds, another six for post-delivery and four intensive care beds within the 186,000-square-foot hospital at the southeast intersection of I-485 and Steele Creek Road.
âWe are in the very early stages of our planning process, which will include approval processes with a variety of stakeholders,â Novant said.
The hospital also would feature 16 unlicensed observation beds, two operating rooms, an emergency department with 15 treatment rooms and one isolation room, one dedicated operating room for C-section deliveries, one procedure room and imaging services.
Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, is a primary sponsor of Senate bills 228, 462 and 505.
The highest profile of the three is Senate Bill 462, which focuses on limited changes to the stateâs controversial Certificate of Need program. The bill passed the Senate by a 48-1 vote.
Senate Bill 228 would allow employers to offer exclusive provider health insurance plans, which act like a PPO except they do not include out-of-network options. It passed by a 49-0 vote.
Senate Bill 505 requires health care facilities to notify patients if a provider within that facility is out of network. It also passed by a 49-0 vote.
River Wilson, who was born four months premature in November, spent 169 days at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. He was considered what is called a micro-preemie because
River Wilson, who was born four months premature in November, spent 169 days at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. He was considered what is called a micro-preemie because
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River Wilson spent the first 169 days of his life in the
neonatal intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
in Winston-Salem because he was born premature. The hospital has
the regionâs only Level IV NICU, which has experts who provide
specialized care for babies born as young as 22 weeks gestational
age, the hospital said.
GREENSBORO â He came into this world a few centimeters shorter than an average-sized Barbie doll. His mother couldnât hold him for the first month of his life. Thirty-two days to be exact.
The medical term is micro-preemie for babies born before 26 weeks gestation or weighing less than 1 pound, 12 ounces, although to parents Jessica and Hayden Wilson, their River â at 1 pound, 11 ounces â was just a tinier bundle of preciousness.