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Presbyterian Healthcare Plans Monroe Complex: Same-Day Surgery Center Would Open in Summer 2007

Posted on: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 09:00 CST

By Chuck Mcshane, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.

Jan. 11--Presbyterian Healthcare has received conditional approval from the state to build a Same Day Surgery Center at Monroe.

The focal point of the complex will be a $4.7 million outpatient surgery center on a 37-acre site at U.S. 74 and Windmere Drive.

The center also will include physician offices, an urgent care and an imaging center. It is scheduled to open in summer 2007.

North Carolina requires health care companies to submit a certificate of need proposal to the state for construction of some same-day surgery centers. The state approved Presbyterian's certificate on Dec. 27. If no one appeals the decision before Jan. 27, full approval will be granted and construction will begin, vice president of financial planning Fred Hargett said.

As part of the proposal, doctors who work at the center also will be on staff at Monroe's Carolinas Medical Center-Union.

Hargett said the doctors' provision was included in the proposal so patients would be able to transfer easily to a nearby hospital if needed. "It's so that we're not an island out there," Hargett said.

Aside from a few physician practices, the surgery center will be Presbyterian's first major center in Union County.

"We're excited about this opportunity," Hargett said. "We hope this is the first step of future development in this market (Union County).

"It is a growth area ... This campus will be an extension of our Matthews campus," he said.

The surgery center will be the largest part of the development. The cost for the rest of the project has not been determined.

The center will offer general, gynecological, ENT, plastic, urological, orthopedic and endoscopic surgeries with no overnight stays. The imaging center will include X-ray and ultrasound machines.

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Source: The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)

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