Count the mayor pro tem of Holly Springs among those who are frustrated by the state’s decision to deny Novant Health’s request to build a hospital in western Wake County. My frustration goes further, as I discuss here. There’s no reason the state should be controlling health care competition.
In a letter to the editor of the Cary News, Tim Sack calls the decision “a gross misstep” that Gov. Perdue should revisit. Sack also lashes out at what he believes is a bias against southwestern Wake.
Novant’s investment would have been from their money and it would have provided a hospital with emergency care, operating rooms and maternity care. It also would have brought the full range of health care professionals to serve southwest Wake County and northern Harnett County, which is grossly underserved. The far-reaching effect of her government’s decision continues to treat southwest Wake County and its close to 90,000 residents as only good for landfills, nuclear plants and toll roads instead of treating it as one of the best places to live in the state.
