The Nov. 18, 2019, edition of The Charlotte Ledger included an article about the battle between Atrium Health and Novant Health to build new hospital beds in Mecklenburg County. (You can sign up for the Ledger for free here.)

Here are Atrium’s applications to the state Department of Health and Human Services that describe why it thinks it should build all 76 beds authorized by the state. They are known as “Certificate of Need” filings. They are hundreds of pages long and contain detailed market data.

(If you are a member of the media and use these documents for a story, you should do the right thing and credit The Charlotte Ledger for unearthing these.)

Atrium Health Pineville:

Atrium Health CMC:

Atrium Health University City:

Atrium Health Lake Norman:

Novant’s filings are not available electronically, the state says. To read them, you have to go to Raleigh.

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