Shelbourn Stevens, president and COO of Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, spoke on Thursday's BizTalk about Novant’s proposal for New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

Winston-Salem-based Novant Health was one of six health systems that submitted pitches to either buy NHRMC or partner with the county-owned hospital, offering the county up to $2 billion to acquire the hospital.

“It’s really about their quality. It’s a high quality, and we respect the work that the county and the leadership there have done. So when we looked at all the assets and everything, it came in around $1.5 [billion],” Stevens said. “And so when we looked at the different options, we wanted to put out a competitive bid out there because we feel that together with Novant Brunswick Medical Center and New Hanover Regional and all of their affiliates, we would create a really, really strong health care system for Southeastern North Carolina.”

Novant Health's proposal also addressed a number of other areas, from funding future NHRMC's strategic capital projects needs to raising NHRMC's charity care eligibility requirement from 200% to 300% of the federal poverty level for patients. Novant also said it would be open to other types of partnership models such as a joint venture, joint operating company or management services agreement instead of a purchase.

Read Novant Health’s proposal here.

Ken Haynes, president of the greater Charlotte region for Atrium Health, which also submitted a proposal, is scheduled to appear on BizTalk next Thursday. Requests have been sent to the four other responding health systems.

See the full conversation with Stevens below.
 
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