FirstHealth filed a request to build with the state in August. If approved, construction will begin in 2010 and completed by 2011, according to the report. The new surgery center would be adjacent to the health system’s proposed eight-bed hospital.
FirstHealth is currently competing wit Cape Fear Valley Health System to build a hospital in Hoke County. The state will make its decision on the hospital in November.
Read the Observer’s report about the proposed FirstHealth of the Carolinas surgery center.
