Representatives from four hospital systems that want to expand in Buncombe County made their case to residents Tuesday in a public hearing at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium.
Mission Hospital, AdventHealth, Novant Health and UNC Health West Medical Center are all competing to add as many as 129 beds to their new or existing facilities in the county.
The state-led session was the latest step in the Certificate of Need process, which is mandated by state law for health care providers that want to build new facilities or provide certain services…