Carolinas HealthCare System is a nonprofit hospital network which operates hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, urgent care centers, and medical practices in the American states of North and South Carolina. About 90% of the hospitals affiliated with the system are located within 75 miles of Carolinas Medical Center, the system's flagship hospital and headquarters, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The system has over 60,000 employees.
Legally, Carolinas HealthCare is the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, a municipal hospital authority established under North Carolina's Hospital Authorities Act (North Carolina General Statutes chapter 131E, part 2). The authority is governed by a self-perpetuating board of commissioners which nominates new commissioners to fill its own vacancies; the chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners can approve or veto those nominations but not make nominations of her own.
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Hospitals
The Carolinas HealthCare System comprises the following hospitals:
North Carolina
Charlotte metropolitan area
Carolinas HealthCare System is based in Charlotte, but its operations are not limited to Charlotte. The network operates eight hospitals within the Charlotte area; four of them are considered by many to comprise 90% of Carolinas HealthCare System's operations.
Main Facilities
These hospitals are considered to be the bulk of Carolinas HealthCare's operations:
- Carolinas Medical Center - This is the flagship hospital for the entire system (located between Dilworth and Myers Park)
- Levine Children's Hospital (Children's Hospital, located at the CMC Campus in Charlotte)
- Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy (located in the Elizabeth neighborhood, central Charlotte)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Pineville (located in Pineville)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Behavioral Health Charlotte - Only dedicated psychiatric emergency department in the region (located in central Charlotte)
- Carolinas HealthCare System University (located in the University City neighborhood, northeast Charlotte)
- Carolinas HealthCare System NorthEast (located in Concord, formerly NorthEast Medical Center & Cabarrus Memorial Hospital)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Union (located in Monroe)
Freestanding Emergency Departments
Carolinas HealthCare System operates six freestanding Emergency Departments. These are 24-hour emergency care centers for the treatment of urgent and emergency medical conditions, but are not attached to a full service hospital.
- Carolinas HealthCare System Harrisburg
- Carolinas HealthCare System Huntersville
- Carolinas HealthCare System Kannapolis
- Carolinas HealthCare System SouthPark
- Carolinas HealthCare System Steele Creek
- Carolinas HealthCare System Waxhaw
Other Hospitals
These hospitals are other community and regional medical centers that Carolinas Healthcare System owns or operates:
- Carolinas HealthCare System Anson (located in Wadesboro)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Cleveland (located in Shelby)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Lincoln (located in Lincolnton)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Kings Mountain (located in Kings Mountain)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Stanly, formerly Stanly Regional Medical Center (located in Albemarle)
Burke County, NC
Carolinas HealthCare System manages Blue Ridge Health Care System, which includes the following hospitals.
- Carolinas HealthCare System - Blue Ridge - Morganton (located in Morganton)
- Carolinas HealthCare System - Blue Ridge - Valdese (located in Valdese)
Columbus County, NC
- Columbus Regional Health System (located in Whiteville)
Polk County, NC
- St. Luke's Hospital (located in Columbus)
Scotland County, NC
- Scotland Health Care System (located in Laurinburg)
Wilkes County, NC
- Wilkes Regional Medical Center (located in North Wilkesboro)
South Carolina
The majority of Carolinas HealthCare System's hospital operations in South Carolina is around the Charleston area.
Charleston Metropolitan Area
The hospitals Carolinas HealthCare manage in Charleston are organized as Roper-St. Francis Health System. This system was created in partnership with two other non-profit organizations, the Medical Society of South Carolina, one of the oldest continuously operating physician organizations in the United States and the owner of Roper Hospital, and the Bon Secours Healthcare System, which owns hospitals and medical facilities throughout the eastern United States.
Roper-St. Francis Health System
- (A Roman Catholic Hospital - located in West Ashley)
- Roper-St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital (located in Mount Pleasant)
- Roper Berkeley Day Hospital (Outpatient Facility located in Moncks Corner)
Union County, SC
- Wallace Thomson Hospital (Located in Union)
Maps Carolinas Healthcare System
Urgent Care Centers
Known as Carolinas HealthCare Urgent Care, it is a system of 18 Urgent Care centers in the Charlotte metropolitan area. Most are open from 8:00am to 8:00pm, seven days a week (except Thanksgiving and Christmas).
- Arboretum Urgent Care (located in south Charlotte)
- Ballantyne Urgent Care (located in the Ballantyne neighborhood, south Charlotte)
- Cabbarus Urgent Care (located in Concord)
- Cotswold Children's Urgent Care (located in the Cotswold neighborhood, central Charlotte)
- East Lincoln Urgent Care Express (located in Denver)
- Fort Mill Urgent Care (located in Fort Mill, SC)
- Morrocroft Urgent Care (located in the Southpark neighborhood, central Charlotte)
- Prosperity Crossing Urgent Care (located in north Charlotte)
- Matthews Urgent Care (located in Matthews)
- Mint Hill Urgent Care (located in Mint Hill)
- Mountain Island Urgent Care (located in Northwest Charlotte)
- Northcross Urgent Care (located in Huntersville)
- Steele Creek Urgent Care (located in the Steele Creek neighborhood, southwest Charlotte)
- Monroe Urgent Care (located in Monroe)
- Union West Urgent Care 24 (located in Indian Trail)
- Gastonia (located in Gastonia)
Rehabilitation Facilities
Carolinas HealthCare System operates a rehabilitation facility on the main campus of Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Other Rehabilitation facilities include:
- Carolinas Rehabilitation-Mount Holly (located in Mount Holly)
- Roper Rehabilitation Hospital (located at Roper Hospital Campus in Charleston)
Behavioral Health Facilities
Carolinas HealthCare System operates a 66-bed inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facility on Randolph Road in Charlotte. They also operate a new state of the art inpatient/outpatient facility in Davidson, North Carolina. Outpatient services include dual diagnosis treatment, child, adolescent and adult Partial Hospitalization Programs.
Other Facilities
In addition to providing patients with quality health care, Carolinas HealthCare System operates long-term care facilities in the Charlotte Area. Other facilities of importance include:
- James G. Cannon Research Center (Research Facility, located on CMC campus in Dilworth)
- Carolinas College of Health Sciences (Education Facility, located on CMC campus in Dilworth)
- Carolinas Physician Network (Network of Physician Offices in North and South Carolina)
- Crawley Memorial Hospital (Defunct) - a Long-term acute care facility located in Boiling Springs
- Mercy School of Nursing (Defunct) (Education Facility, located in southwest Charlotte)
Merger with UNC Health Care
Carolinas HealthCare System and Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based UNC Health Care announced August 31, 2017 that the systems would merge, resulting in a network employing about 90,000 in over 50 hospitals. Executives of both systems said a larger network would improve the ability to negotiate with insurance companies and provide other cost reductions. A letter of intent signed August 30, 2017 said that if the merger was approved, UNC Health Care CEO Bill Roper would become executive chairman and Carolinas Healthcare CEO Gene Woods would be CEO.
External links
- Carolinas Healthcare System homepage
- Carolinas College of Health Sciences homepage
- Carolinas Physicians Network homepage
References
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