Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section

Acute Care Services Committee

Petitions

• Cape Fear Valley Health System: Adjustment to the acute care bed need determination to remove the need for 119 acute care beds in Cumberland/Hoke Service Area (PDF, 1.68 MB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Inc. (PDF, 19.46 MB)
    • Hoke County Board of Commissioners (PDF, 203 KB)
• Vidant Medical Center: Adjustment to the acute care bed need determination to remove the need for the Pitt/Greene/Hyde service area (PDF, 357 KB)
• Blue Ridge Bone & Joint Clinic: Demonstration project for a single specialty, two operating room ambulatory surgical facility in Buncombe, Madison, Yancey Counties (PDF, 135 KB)
  • Comments
    • Paul Saenger (PDF, 362 KB)
• WakeMed Health & Hospitals: Special Need Determination for two dedicated pediatric surgical operating rooms in Wake County (PDF, 1.56 MB)
  • Comments
    • Duncan Phillips (PDF, 204 KB)
    • Stan Taylor (PDF, 177 KB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • Rex Healthcare (PDF, 131 KB)

Comments on Petitions or Comments

• Acute Care Bed Need
  • Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 50 KB)

Technology and Equipment Committee

Petitions

• Duke University Health System: Adjusted need determination for additional linear accelerator in service area 20 (PDF, 428 KB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • Cancer Centers of North Carolina (PDF, 633 KB)
    • Cary Urology, PA (PDF, 76 KB)
    • Rex Healthcare (PDF, 509 KB)
• Carteret County General Hospital: Adjustment for a need for one additional shared fixed cardiac catheterization equipment in Carteret County (PDF, 1.22 MB)
  • Comments
    • Richard Brvenik (PDF, 266 KB)
    • Donna Cheek (PDF, 248 KB)
    • Donna Cheek (PDF, 250 KB)
    • Donna Cheek (PDF, 214 KB)
    • Ginger Parker (PDF, 93 KB)
    • One letter of support was received regarding this petition. It is available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Technology and Equipment Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 19, 2012.
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • CarolinaEast Health System (PDF, 76 KB)
    • Carteret Economic Development Council Board of Directors (PDF, 80 KB)
• Johnston Health: Change in the Certificate of Need rules that would allow for the provision of interventional cardiac catheterization services in Johnston County (PDF, 162 KB)
  • Attachment 1: Study from Journal of Americal College of Cardiology (PDF, 267 KB)
  • Attachment 2: Article from theHeart.org (PDF, 160 KB)
  • Attachment 3: American Heart Association Guidance (PDF, 37 KB)
  • Comments
    • Matthew Hook (PDF, 72 KB)
    • Ruth Marler (PDF, 69 KB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • Carolina Cardiology Associates, P.A. (PDF, 47 KB)
    • Duke LifePoint Healthcare Cardiac Partners (PDF, 1.54 MB)
    • Halifax Regional Medical Center (PDF, 147 KB)
    • Randolph Hospital (PDF, 46 KB)
    • WakeMed Health & Hospitals (PDF, 1023 KB)
• Southeastern Regional Medical Center: Adjusted need determination for one additional unit of fixed cardiac catheterization equipment in Robeson County (PDF, 136 KB)
  • Comments
    • Robert Everhart (PDF, 248 KB)
    • Andrew Schwartz (PDF, 221 KB)

Comments

• David French, Alliance Healthcare Services: Regarding no need for additional mobile positron emission tomography scanners (PDF, 105 KB)
• Lynn S. Pitman, Wake Forest Baptist Health: Adjust the need determination to remove the need for a position emission tomography (PET) scanner in HSA II and review and revise the capacity threshold for PET need (PDF, 82 KB)

Comments on Petitions or Comments

• Cardiac Catheterization Services
  • Carteret County Chamber of Commerce (PDF, 95 KB)
  • S. Phillip Collins (PDF, 79 KB)
  • Community member (PDF, 68 KB)
  • Emergency Management Physicians (PDF, 187 KB)
  • James J. Croswell, MD, PA (PDF, 119 KB)
  • Sound Medical Family Practice (PDF, 2.01 MB)
  • C.R. Wheatley, III (PDF, 86 KB)
  • There were 56 additional letters of support received regarding these petitions. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Technology and Equipment meeting on Wednesday, September 19, 2012.
• PET Scanners
  • Novant Health and MedQuest Associates, Inc. (PDF, 248 KB)

Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee

Petitions

• Meridian Senior Living, Hyde County Board of Commissioners, Tyrrell County Board of Commissioners: Regarding the merging of Hyde County and Tyrrell County adult care home beds into a combined service area (PDF, 128 KB)
  • Need Determination Adjustment (PDF, 60 KB)
  • Comments
    • Hyde County Board of Commissioners (PDF, 115 KB)
    • Tyrell County Board of Commissioners (PDF, 103 KB)
• Bell House: Adjustment to need determination for skilled nursing beds in Guilford County (PDF, 191 KB)
• OrthoCarolina: Adjusted need determination for sixteen nursing facility beds to be utilized in conjunction with an existing or approved orthopedic ambulatory surgical facility in Mecklenburg County (PDF, 933 KB)
  • Comments
    • Robert McBride (PDF, 206 KB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • Carolinas HealthCare System (PDF, 264 KB)
    • Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates, P.A. (PDF, 668 KB)
    • CorVel Corporation (PDF, 89 KB)
    • Cutter D. Davis, Jr. (PDF, 77 KB)
    • Matthew X. Engels (PDF, 31 KB)
    • Thomas K. Fehring (PDF, 81 KB)
    • James Fleischli (PDF, 108 KB)
    • Scott Moss (PDF, 96 KB)
    • N.C. Hospital Association (PDF, 104 KB)
    • Paul C. Perlik (PDF, 90 KB)
• HealthKeeperz: Adjusted need determination for a Medicare-certified home health agency in Brunswick County (PDF, 1.00 MB)
  • Comments
    • Tim Brooks (PDF, 208 KB)
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • AssistedCare Home Health (PDF, 182 KB)
    • Liberty HomeCare and Hospice (PDF, 55 KB)
    • NHRMC Home Care (PDF, 46 KB)
    • Well Care Home Health (PDF, 164 KB)
• CarePartners Hospice and Palliative Care and Four Seasons Compassion for Life: Adjusted need determination for six hospice inpatient beds in Buncombe County (PDF, 4.85 MB)
  • Comments
    • Tracy Buchanan (PDF, 136 KB)
    • Chris Comeaux (PDF, 107 KB)
• UNC Hospice: Safeguard the need determination for six hospice inpatient beds in Chatham County (PDF, 708 KB)
  • Comments
    • Laura C. Hanson (PDF, 207 KB)
    • Libby Hart (PDF, 194 KB)
    • There were 32 letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee meeting on Friday, September 14, 2012.
• Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care: Adjusted need determination for three hospice inpatient beds for Surry County (PDF, 1.04 MB)
  • Comments
    • There were 266 letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee meeting on Friday, September 14, 2012.
• Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care: Adjusted need determination for six hospice inpatient beds for Yadkin County (PDF, 1017 KB)
  • Comments
    • There were 945 letters of support received regarding this petition. They are available for review in the Medical Facilities Planning Branch office and will be available for review at the Long Term and Behavioral Health Committee meeting on Friday, September 14, 2012.
  • Comments on Petitions or Comments
    • Frank and Barbara Gentry (PDF, 75 KB)
    • Everett and Mildred Hartzog (PDF, 57 KB)
    • Hospice & Palliative CareCenter (PDF, 149 KB)

Comments

• Tim Rogers, Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina: Hospice and Home Health Chapters (PDF, 36 KB)
• Peter Brunnick, Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region: Comment on the six hospice inpatient bed need projected for Lincoln County (PDF, 125 KB)