CaroMont Regional Medical Center—Belmont, a $260 million hospital in North Carolina, has opened.
Here are five things to know:
1. The 54-bed facility is Belmont's first hospital and the second hospital for Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health, according to a Jan. 8 health system news release.
2. The 275,000-square-foot hospital includes 16 emergency department rooms, a labor and delivery unit, a surgical suite, and diagnostic and imaging services.
3. The campus also features a 100,000-square-foot medical office building. While final construction costs are pending, the current estimate for the entire campus is $315 million, according to a fact sheet shared with Becker's.
4. The hospital is the final project in CaroMont Health's 2019 commitment to invest more than $400 million in expansion and construction projects in the community.
5. The hospital operates as an extension of the 476-bed CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia, N.C.