A new hospital for Ballantyne
Novant Health gives sneak peek of new hospital at Johnston Road at Providence Road West
This article originally appeared in the May 31, 2023, edition of The Charlotte Ledger, an e-newsletter with local business-y news and insights for Charlotte, N.C. Sign up for free:
Novant’s new Ballantyne hospital has 36 acute-care beds and 4 operating rooms; ‘This is the community’s hospital’
A new $180M Novant Health hospital in the Ballantyne area was designed with growth in mind for future expansion, officials told reporters Tuesday during a ribbon cutting. Inside, the main entrance lobby (left) was designed with lots of natural light. The eight maternity rooms (right) are designed for labor, delivery and recovery.
by Cristina Bolling
Novant Health opened the doors to its new Ballantyne hospital Tuesday for media and local dignitaries as it prepares for a June 12 opening for both the hospital and an attached medical office building.
The Ledger got a look around the place, which at about 168,000 s.f. is similar in size to other community hospitals Novant is building, including one that opened in Mint Hill in 2018. Many in south Charlotte are familiar with the land it occupies at Johnston Road and Providence Road West, which was previously the Hall Family Farm, a place locally famous for its spring pick-your-own strawberry fields. (Tom Hall of the Hall Farm family attended the ribbon cutting event Tuesday.)
Benjamin Brodersen, president and chief operating officer of Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center said the building incorporates the “latest and the greatest” technology and was designed to incorporate the outdoors, with walking trails around the property, a pavilion and pond for reflection and a future fountain.
“This is this community’s hospital,” Broderson said. “It’s still going to be a place where we want the community to come. Not just for acute care needs but we still want to be a part of this community, even a little bit as it used to be.”
A few by-the-numbers facts about the hospital:
36 acute care beds, including 24 in its medical-surgical department, four intermediate care beds and eight labor and delivery suites
4 operating rooms, and one dedicated operating room for cesarean section births
15 bays in the emergency room, including a special gastrointestinal treatment room
12 medical observation rooms
Services will include general medicine, heart and vascular medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, cancer with infusion services, outpatient surgery and orthopedics.
Other interesting tidbits:
Digital boards: All patient rooms will have digital communication boards that will let patients communicate with doctors and nurses and get information about their treatment, diet, communicate pain levels and watch video tutorials. Broderson said the Ballantyne hospital is Novant’s first in the Charlotte region to have the special boards. “We’re moving away from the days of the white grease board that’s still stained from whoever was there last time,” Broderson said.
Hydrotherapy room and zero-entry showers: Obstetrics will be a big focus at the new hospital, as it’s situated in a growing community with lots of young families. The labor-delivery-recovery suites are outfitted with zero-entry showers (it used to be de rigueur to have bathtubs in delivery suites for women to use during labor). The new Ballantyne hospital has one “hydrotherapy room” big enough for both moms and their partners to get in during labor. (Babies won’t be born in the tub, staff said.)
Full staff: The hospital will open with a full staff, without taking many staff members from other local Novant facilities, Brodersen said. “That has been a concern but ended up not being a challenge for us.”
Pizza oven: The hospital dining room, located near the main entrance, has indoor and outdoor dining — and the kitchen is complete with a fancy tiled pizza oven.
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