Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

• Public Hearing Schedule
• Deadlines
• Spring 2025
• Summer 2025
• Archive of Petitions and Comments

Spring 2025

The deadline for comments on the Spring 2025 petitions and comments is 5:00 p.m. on the dates listed below.

March 5, 2025: The Council will conduct a public hearing on statewide issues related to the development of the North Carolina Proposed 2026 State Medical Facilities Plan immediately following the business meeting.

March 19, 2025: Deadline for receipt of written comments regarding petitions or comments submitted by the March 5 deadline on statewide issues related to the development of the North Carolina Proposed 2026 State Medical Facilities Plan.

Technology and Equipment Committee

• Develop Policy TE-5: Cardiac Catheterization Equipment for Emergency Coverage: NC DHHS Staff Proposal
  • Letters of Support
    • Novant Health, Andrea Gymer
• Develop Policy TE-5: Plan Exemption for Linear Accelerators: Cone Health
  • Letters of Support
    • Cone Health, Dr. Haiyan Lu
    • Cone Health, Dr. Jay Wyatt, III
    • Cone Health, Dr. John Moody
    • Central Carolina Surgery, Dr. Matthew Wakefield
    • Cone Health, Dr. Matthew Manning
    • LeBauer Primary Care, Dr. Stacey Blyth
    • Cone Health, Dr. Jim Kinard
    • Cone Health, Dr. Lester S. Borden
    • Cone Health, Dr. Sarah Squire
    • Cone Health, Karen A. Gaffe, Radiation Oncology Patient
    • Cone Health, Lesley Hobbs, Radiation Oncology Patient
    • Central Carolina Surgery, Dr. Thomas Cornett
    • Cone Health, Darren Neal, Radiation Oncology Patient
  • Comments
    • Atrium Health, Greg Bass
    • WakeMed, Robbie Roberts
    • Duke University Health System, Catharine Cummer
    • Novant Health, Andrea Gymer
• Develop Policy TE-5: Plan Exemption for Dedicated Cardiac PET for Open Heart Surgery Providers: Mission Hospital
  • Letters of Support
    • Alliance Healthcare Services (Akumin), Tina Hinshaw
  • Comments
    • Novant Health, Andrea Gymer
• Develop Policy TE-5: Plan Exemption for Linear Accelerators in Cancer Center Hospitals: WakeMed
  • Letters of Support
    • UNC Health Wayne, Howard Whitfield
  • Comments
    • Duke University Health System, Catharine Cummer
    • Novant Health, Andrea Gymer
• General comment submitted regarding proposals for a LINAC policy
  • Duke University Health System, Catharine Cummer

Summer 2025

The deadlines are 5:00 p.m. on the dates listed below.

July 23, 2025: Deadline for receipt of petitions for adjustments to need determinations and other written comments regarding the Proposed 2026 State Medical Facilities Plan.

August 06, 2025: Deadline for receipt of written comments regarding petitions or other matters concerning the Proposed 2026 State Medical Facilities Plan.