Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is planning to build a 54-bed children's behavioral hospital in Granville County, the Triangle Business Journal reported Feb. 14.
UNC Health filed a certificate of need application for the facility, the report said. The health system is teaming up with the state's Department of Health and Human Services to convert the R.J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center into the new facility, the report said.
The project will cost $10.4 million and will be funded through UNC Health's reserves. Regulators at the NCDHHS have between 90 and 150 days to review the application.