The facility, called “N.C. Children’s,” was characterized as a “decade-long goal” for both institutions and is expected to lessen the strain on other regional facilities amid increased demand for care.

UNC Health and Duke Health are expected to announce a partnership to build a 500-bed children's hospital in the Triangle, people familiar with the arrangement tell WRAL. It would be the first standalone children's hospital in the state.

President Trump issued a directive temporarily halting communications, meetings and purchases related to federal health care research grants.

The Triangle's preeminent healthcare systems announced a partnership to help advance a $2 billion children's health campus in North Carolina.

"Faculty from both schools will serve as clinical staff. They will also teach medical students, pediatric residents, fellows, nurses and other healthcare professionals, and they'll do so in facilities built specifically for children," said Dr. Craig Albanese, the CEO of Duke University Health System.

The health systems announced on Tuesday a plan to build a more than 100-acre campus for the hospital called, NC Children’s.

UNC Health and Duke Health formed a joint venture to build a 500-bed, free-standing children's hospital in the Piedmont, North Carolina, area.

UNC Health and Duke Health announced a collaboration to raise funds in order to build a flagship children’s hospital in the Triangle.

Two of the world’s top academic health systems are right here in North Carolina, and they are uniting to create something special. UNC Health and Duke Health

Two North Carolina-based university health systems plan to construct the state’s first standalone children’s hospital — an undertaking that its boosters said will change lives physically and economica

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