CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Charlotte-based Carolinas HealthCare System is certainly a big provider, with its 22 hospitals, 200 locations and 5,000 licensed beds throughout North and South Carolina. And now the system is about to embark on its biggest construction project ever. Carolinas received the green light from North Carolina officials in late February to proceed with a $174 million expansion at its CMC-Pineville campus, where it will add more than 285,000 square feet of space and renovate 50,000 additional square feet. Included would be the creation of a major heart program and a Level III trauma center. The plan also calls for transferring a number of beds, operating rooms, catheterization labs and other assets from other Carolinas HealthCare facilities to CMC-Pineville, which is located in a growing area south of Charlotte. The hospital campus would have 206 beds after the project is complete. The project is being driven by demand, as the population in the hospital’s service area exceeded 835,000 in 2006 and is expected to reach 971,000 by 2011. The project is slated for completion by mid-2013.
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