Turning Haywood’s shuttered hospital into apartments hinges on tax credits
The plan to convert the old hospital in Haywood County into low-income apartments isn’t a done deal. It’s contingent on both historic preservation and low-income housing tax credits to make it financially viable.
Abandoned hospital to find new purpose
A new plan is the works to convert the abandoned old hospital in Haywood County into an affordable housing apartment complex.
A new model of health care: Cherokee celebrates new hospital
After a week of rain, the sun rose brightly over the new Cherokee Indian Hospital and the crowd attending its opening day.
$11 million allocated for new Sylva emergency department
It’s official: Harris Regional Hospital is getting a new emergency department.
Western counties celebrate hospital sale
A visiting team from LifePoint Hospital network made the rounds to their newly acquired hospitals in Haywood, Jackson and Swain counties over the past week. They pledged to roll up their sleeves and get to work fulfilling the promises made when courting the community hospitals here to join their national hospital network with a growing presence in North Carolina.
Fire causes electrical failure in Haywood hospital
The campus of Haywood Regional Medical Center is full of cars coming and going, staff walking toward or returning from shifts and people in workout gear heading toward the Fitness Center. Staff members help an elderly woman in a wheelchair get in her vehicle after discharging her from care, and staff working with those still admitted move between stations.
Two unfortunate consequences: a one-two punch for hospitals and the working poor donut hole
Hospitals in North Carolina face a catch-22 of the worst kind: the $600 million kind, the kind they have no control over, the kind that involves politics.
Hospitals in North Carolina are seeing a financial hit they can ill-afford after state lawmakers in the General Assembly turned down the federal government’s offer to expand Medicaid last year. It would have added 500,000 uninsured poor to Medicaid rolls.
Groundbreaking on the horizon for new hospital in Cherokee
Preliminary sitework on a new Cherokee Indian Hospital could start as early as December.
The hospital has entered contract negotiations with a construction management company that would oversee construction of a new hospital, estimated to run between $50 to $65 million.
Cherokee brings more health care in-house with new hospital
When pediatricians at Cherokee Indian Hospital retreat to their desk between patients to log data, research puzzling symptoms or review lab results, they’re constantly looking over their shoulders.
Old hospital building needs a new lease on life, but takers are few
What to do with a hulking, four-story, run-down, decades-old, now-empty former hospital in Waynesville?
