Four care providers in southeastern North Carolina have submitted a joint Certificate of Need application with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services asking for permission to develop a combination nursing facility and adult care home by transferring existing beds from their other facilities. 

The proposal, outlined in a July 11 public notice from the state agency, was put forward by Liberty Healthcare Nursing Properties of Brunswick County, Southport Nursing Center, J.A. McNeill & Sons and S&R Properties III.

The care providers seek the transfer of 32 adult care home beds from The Commons at Brightmore in New Hanover County and 64 nursing facility beds from Dosher Nursing Center in Brunswick County to establish a combined facility in the Lockwood Folly Township of Brunswick County to be known as Liberty Commons of Brunswick County. 

The project is expected to cost $17.7 million and to be completed in September 2019, according to the public notice.