ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — UNC Health has filed plans with state regulators to build a 92-bed hospital in Buncombe County, a move that comes amid reports the health system has purchased Asheville’s Westgate Shopping Center as part of a broader expansion into Western North Carolina.
The North Carolina-based nonprofit health system said Thursday that it has submitted a proposal through the state’s Certificate of Need process to construct what it is calling UNC Health West, an acute-care hospital that would be located near Westgate and Patton Avenue.
The proposed hospital would offer a wide range of services, including emergency care, intensive care, labor and delivery, neonatology, cardiology, gastroenterology, radiology, psychiatry, speech pathology, physical therapy and occupational therapy…