The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of WakeMed and against Duke Health and UNC Rex Hospital in a certificate-of-need dispute involving 44 new acute-care beds in Wake County.
Both Duke and UNC challenged state health regulators’ decision to award a CON to WakeMed for new beds at its North Raleigh and Cary hospitals. That decision blocked Duke and UNC from adding new beds at their Wake County locations.
An administrative law judge issued a 2025 ruling affirming the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ decision favoring WakeMed in the CON competition…