UNC Health, the University of North Carolina’s hospital system, has applied for permission to open a 92-bed hospital near downtown Asheville.
The state-owned nonprofit health provider, which already has a management agreement with UNCHealth Pardee in Henderson County, made the request to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services under the state’s Certificate of Need requirement, which requires regulatory approval.
The move comes as UNC continues to appeal DHHS’s decision in March to award 95 beds to Mission Hospital and 34 to Novant Health. UNC’s latest application, submitted June 15, was for a separate set of beds that DHHS made available this year through the certificate of need process…