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UNC Health and Duke Health have announced plans to build a New Child Health System In North Carolina, in what will be the first independent hospital in the state dedicated to caring for children, according to a launch of January 28 in Duke.
It The project is expected to cost around $ 2 billionfor axios.
NC children’s plans include a 500 -bed children’s hospital, a children’s Outpatient Care Center, a behavioral health center, an outpatient surgical center and a medical office building.
Duke Health and UNC Health officials said it is still at the beginning of the project planning process, so they have not made determinations around the selection of a designer or a general contractor.
The campus will be built in a place of 100 hectares, still to determine, somewhere in the research triangle, a region of North Carolina anchored by Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The approximately 4,800 square kilometer area is home to the University of North Carolina, Duke University and the North Carolina State University.
An autonomous children’s hospital in the State has been a decade goal for the two institutions, according to launch. An investment of $ 320 million at the installation by North Carolina State in early 2024 advanced discussions for a collaboration between the University of North Carolina and Duke.
The members are planning to break the ground by 2027, and it was expected that the construction of the campus will take about six years. The hospital will open in the early 2030’s, according to launch, but basic services, such as behavioral health hospital, outpatient surgical center or medical office building, can open years earlier.
