North Healthplex has been extremely successful, demonstrating the need for health care services in this community. The facility’s emergency department volumes are higher than more than half of the emergency departments in the entire state of North Carolina.
Additionally, North Healthplex’ existing emergency, surgery, diagnostic imaging, and laboratory services will provide the needed support for the proposed women’s hospital.
WakeMed just finished construction on 42 new acute care beds at WakeMed Cary Hospital to serve the growing health care needs of southern and western Wake County. We also opened Apex Healthplex in February of this year to help serve the emergency needs of western Wake County. We feel strongly that the 41 beds that are available this year should go to the northern part of Wake County.
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It's about time we get a real hospital in North Raleigh! I am going to tell all of my friends and family to support this cause!
While I am very pleased that Wake Med is planning to expand at the North complex, I am a bit concerned that the needs in Northern Wake county is for general acute hospital care, and not just women's health. I have concerns that Wake will disinfranchise a significant portion of the population in the Northern part of the county by not having general hospital services available (not only men, but also women with non ob-gyn issues). The ER there is very busy, but most of those patients will still have to be shipped down to the main campus (as few have acute ob-gyn complaints). How is Wake addressing these general medical needs to those of us in the northern part of the county?
A Women's Hospital in North Raleigh is the first step towards meeting the needs of a child-bearing age population and a first step in providing excellent healthcare services to residents.
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