Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health will open a 168,000-square-foot hospital in Ballantyne, N.C., on June 12, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
The 36-bed facility features two operating rooms, a 15-room emergency department and 12 observation beds, according to the report. Services include general medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, heart, vascular and cancer care, orthopedics and outpatient surgery.
"Patients in Ballantyne are faced with a [growing] commute to receive potentially life-saving care," Saad Ehtisham, president of Charlotte-based Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, told the publication. "We strive to grow with the community as it grows and viewed this as a challenge and an opportunity, and we were committed to eliminating these barriers to care."