High Point Regional Health is looking to expand its operations into Greensboro with plans to build a new freestanding emergency department that would operate under High Point Medical Center. The proposed facility would be called the High Point Medical Center Church Street Satellite Emergency Department, and it represents a significant new investment in area healthcare.
On Friday, Nov. 7 the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services stated that High Point Regional Health has filed a certificate of need application with the state’s Division of Health Service Regulation to construct the new emergency department.
In North Carolina, major healthcare projects like this one can’t move forward until state officials determine there’s a public need for the new facility. The system is designed to prevent unnecessary duplication of services and to make sure that hospitals expand in ways that match community needs…