Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2024
After a six-year legal battle, Beaufort (S.C.) Memorial Hospital has withdrawn its certificate of need for a planned hospital in Bluffton, S.C., the hospital confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s.
Instead, the hospital plans to build a medical office building on the available space, featuring a freestanding emergency department, an ambulatory surgery center and room to add services in the future, the statement said.
State officials approved the certificate of need for the microhospital in July 2018. Beaufort Memorial said it had hopes of opening the 20-bed Bluffton facility in 2022.
The $44 million project was initially supposed to be built and operated through a joint venture between Beaufort Memorial and Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina. For...
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