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WakeMed seeks to build combined acute and behavioral health campus in Garner; town staff working on permits and infrastructure
Summary
WakeMed representatives described a planned 'whole health campus' in Garner that merges a 45‑bed acute hospital with a 150‑bed mental health and well‑being facility, described site layout and timeline, and said a Certificate of Need was obtained for the projects; town staff and WakeMed are coordinating on site access and stormwater work.
Tom Cavender, vice president of facilities and construction for WakeMed Health and Hospitals, told Garner council on Aug. 26 that WakeMed is advancing plans for a combined WakeMed Garner Whole Health Campus, merging previously approved Certificate of Need projects into a single site.
What the campus would include WakeMed has received approvals from the state Certificate of Need process to construct both a 45‑bed acute care hospital and a 150‑bed mental health and well‑being hospital. Cavender said WakeMed decided to move both projects to the same Garner campus and that the combined project will include a full emergency department (about 24 treatment bays), an intensive care unit, med/surg beds, six operating rooms and mental‑health programs covering adolescent, adult, young‑adult, dual‑diagnosis and geriatric care.
Expansion filing and totals WakeMed told…
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