North Carolina regulators received certificate of need applications from four Winston-Salem, N.C.-based providers: Triad Center for Surgery, Cone Health, Forsyth Medical Center and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.
Here are five insights.
1. Wake Forest Baptist recently opened an outpatient center in Clemmons, N.C.Winston-Salem-based North Carolina Baptist Hospital requested adding four operating rooms for about $10 million.
If approved, the hospital would have 51 ORs plus another seven related to a separate CON application.
2. Triad Center for Surgery applied to build an ASC with two ORs and three procedure rooms at an unspecified site for $7.2 million.
3. Winston-Salem-based Novant Health applied to add two ORs at Forsyth Medical Center for $4.2 million.
Novant also filed a separate application to add 2 ORS to a Clemmons-based multispecialty ASC slated for completion in 2019. The project would cost $3.1 million.
4. Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health sought approval for a 15,500-square-foot ASC with two ORs, a gastroenterology endoscopy room and a procedure room in Kernsersville, N.C., for $12.7 million.
5. A public hearing is required for the projects. Regulators will accept written comments on the applications through July 2.