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Trinity Capital 
Partners purchases 
Ballantyne property (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: December 6,2011

Charlotte-based Trinity Capital Partners is betting on a medical-related real estate recuperation with its latest acquisition. The company has purchased the loan secured by 7825 Ballantyne Commons Parkway. The purchase price has not been disclosed. The 27,779-square-foot building at the intersection of Ballantyne Commons and Rea Road is home to mostly medical firms, including Carmel [...]


CHS gets state backing for $33M 
facility

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 5,2011

A proposed 66-bed psychiatric-care facility that spawned nasty exchanges between Mecklenburg County officials and Carolinas HealthCare System has won state approval. The roughly $33 million, 71,700-square-foot project would be built on CHS-owned land near Huntersville Oaks nursing home. Earlier this year, CHS said it planned for the facility to open in the summer of 2013. [...]


Carolinas HealthCare System plans million of dollars in 
renovations (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 21,2011

Carolinas HealthCare System could be spending millions on renovation projects throughout the Charlotte area. This week, CHS filed three certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation. In one request, CHS wants to add 19 licensed beds at Carolinas Medical Center, a project that has an estimated cost of $3.8 [...]


Catawba Valley Medical Center undergoing $32.5M expansion (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 14,2011

In a roughly $32.5 million construction project, Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory is adding an oncology pavilion and women’s center. The center and pavilion will be an 82,440-square-foot structure that will connect to the main hospital on the second floor. Of the $32.5 million, $11 million comes from hospital and foundation funds, while $22 [...]


Carolinas HealthCare seeks state OK 
for projects

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 20,2011

Carolinas HealthCare System announced Friday that it has filed two certificate of need applications to build health care pavilions on the campus of Carolinas Medical Center-Morrocroft and near the intersection of Interstate 485 and Providence Road in south Charlotte. In the filing made late Thursday with the state Division of Facility Services, CHS is seeking [...]


Church wins 
rezoning for 
dental facility (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: August 26,2011

The Charlotte City Council has approved the rezoning of 1.66 acres at 7841 Idlewild Road. New Hope Baptist Church sought the zoning change from residential (R-4) to institutional. The church wants to convert a 1,350-square-foot mission house into a free dental care facility while using a separate 8,150-square-foot building for religious activities. The facilities will [...]


FDA: Tests of Tucker Adkins Dairy milk negative for bacteria

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 29,2011

Tests of raw milk samples from York, S.C.-based Tucker Adkins Dairy have come back negative for the bacteria that causes campylobacteriosis, Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said. Earlier this month, the FDA said it was investigating reports of people claiming to have become ill after they drank milk from Tucker. Campylobacteriosis is known to [...]


FDA investigates York dairy illness cases

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 18,2011

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating reports of people claiming to have become ill after they drank milk from York, S.C.-based Tucker Adkins Dairy. Three people have came down with campylobacteriosis, a bacterial disease, and there are another five probable cases, the FDA said. The FDA said the people reported that [...]


Carolinas HealthCare System turns to court in fight with county

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 15,2011

Carolinas HealthCare System’s dispute with Mecklenburg County could be headed to court. CHS said it has initiated legal action as a means to make the county to honor the terms of its contract with the health care system. The filing comes after Mecklenburg County commissioners decided to end a contract with CHS. CHS and the [...]


Surgeon sues to keep doctors off his turf (access required)

By Dolan Media Newswires
Published: July 15,2011

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — An East End surgeon is suing to block two doctors who left his practice from performing surgery in that region, arguing the physicians are violating a noncompete agreement. Peconic Surgical Group, in Riverhead and Southampton, is suing Dr. Agostino Cervone and Dr. George Keckeisen for violating their employment contract. The two [...]