North Carolina’s UNC Health Care Wants Inpatient Mental Health Unit in Raleigh

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions As reported in WRAL news on December 6, 2012, University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care is seeking approval from state regulators to open a 16-bed inpatient mental-health wing in Raleigh that would be operated as a psychiatric unit of UNC Hospitals. The new unit, which would include crisis and assessment services and medical detox treatment, would complement existing care provided at the WakeBrook Recovery Center, a health care facility managed by Wake County, on Sunnybrook Road. UNC, under an agreement with the Wake County Board of Commissioners, is expected to assume management . . .