Two New Hospitals in Fort Mill?
See update Sept 2010 below
Carmen asked me Monday if anything new has come up about the new Fort Mill Hospital. I had not heard anything so I did some online research. It seems back in May 2006 Piedmont Medical Center was awarded a certificate by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to build a 221,985-square-foot, 100 bed hospital called Fort Mill Medical Center on a 40-acre site at the corner of Hwy. 160 West and Hwy. 21. The process allows for an appeal process that was estimated to take 2 years to resolve. I have not been able to find on line any updates on the timing or status of the hospital. Here are a couple links to Fort Mill Times 2006 articles by Jonathan Allen about the Fort Mill hospital.
PMC will receive 10-year break on Fort Mill taxes
Appeals process could take years
Here is a link to a PMC article:
But I did find a related story that popped up in the Fort Mill Times yesterday by Jonathan Allen . Piedmont Medical Center (PMC) was trying to stop Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) from building a medical building and urgent care facility at the corner of Gold Hill Road and I-77. Apparently PMC filed a complaint to DHEC to block the project but the appeal or complaint was denied because the CMC facility is planned as a office building not a medical procedure facility. The CMC building is under construction and is estimated to open in December 2008.
Update Sept 2010
Presbyterian Healthcare and Carolinas HealthCare System appealed the 2006 decision to go with Piedmont and a judge ruled late Dec 2009 that state regulators had failed to review the Fort Mill applications in accordance with South Carolina’s certificate-of-need law.
As you may have seen all of the new billboards, websites, and signs in our area, all three hospital systems are on a souped up marketing campaign to gain your support for their new application to be the Fort Mill Hospital. It looks like October 2010 is the deadline to reapply.
To see each one of the hospital systems pleas, go to their website:
October 3rd, 2010 at 8:24 am
I would like to see carolinas healthcare system to come to fortmill. If i need to go to the hospital i will drive to nc to see a doctor. They really care for the people that come into the er. You have my vote
October 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 am
Carolinas HealthCare System has always been a good hospital in taking care of people. They are soon of the nices people i know they make you feel like you are worth there time. I would like to see them come to fortmill sc.
October 24th, 2010 at 6:20 am
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June 23rd, 2011 at 6:54 am
Im trying to find a soccer “league”, if thats what you want to call it, for weekend, or maybe week night soccer, that is played just for fun in, or around, Fort Mill, SC and/or Charlotte, NC. I dont want to join a club team, I just want something to keep me in shape, keep my touch warm, and have fun. Im 15, almost 16, if thats any help.
July 13th, 2011 at 9:57 am
I think it is time to care for people’s health, would be good to know that they are improving the conditions in Fort Mill!
August 20th, 2011 at 4:53 am
Another example of where the English language suffers. Originally a mill was a facility where raw, natural materials would be broken down into a more usable form and this is still true today but sometimes the term is misused. Examples are a lumber mill takes whole trees and cuts them into pieces for building, a steel mill takes raw iron and carbon and forms it into steel beams and other shapes.
September 9th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
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