Charlotte hospitals

Triangle-based Duke Health has crossed into the Piedmont region, expanding its footprint into Atrium Health and Novant Health territory. Duke acquired Lake Norman Regional in Mooresville in April and will rebrand the hospital as Duke Health Lake Norman. What will this mean for health care?

A brief the University of North Carolina’s Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy released this week estimates that the state as a whole may run out of ICU and acute care beds sometime in January. If cases continue to grow at the same rate, the Charlotte region is projected to run out of acute beds in as little as five weeks.

The Carolinas Specialty Hospital had a moving day of sorts. That meant transferring close to thirty acute-care patients from uptown Charlotte to…

Starting this week, patients in critical condition at three Charlotte hospitals will have an extra set of eyes watching over them. That's because…