Novant Health is celebrating the completion of Scotts Hill Medical Center, which will open to the public on June 16. 

The 66-bed hospital is located at 151 Scotts Hill Medical Drive on property that straddles the Pender and New Hanover county border and has been years in the making. 

The 250,000-square-foot hospital has a surgical focus and includes eight operating rooms, two rooms for gastroenterology and endoscopy procedures, a cardiac catheterization lab, along with 14 patient observation rooms, a 29-bed unit for pre- and post-surgery patients, and a 12-bed post-anesthesia care unit. 

“Every detail of this facility was meticulously planned with our patients at the forefront,” said Grant Rush, president of Novant Health Scotts Hill Medical Center, in a press release. “We ensured this hospital offers advanced technology and the latest diagnostic equipment to support specialized surgeries and procedures and inpatient treatment for a range of needs, including heart and vascular and critical care.”

Construction on the hospital began in 2023, with an original cost estimate of $210 million. Due to rising labor and construction costs, the price rose to $294 million, according to state filings. 

According to the release, Novant Health recruited staff both internally and externally, “drawing new healthcare professionals to the region to staff the facility.” Once hiring and onboarding are complete, the hospital will employ a total of 700 team members. 

Novant Health officials held a ribbon-cutting ahead of the hospital’s opening next week. Additionally, residents are invited to a Community Day to visit the facility on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The emergency department on the Scotts Hill campus opened in 2015, an expansion headed by the New Hanover Regional Medical Center before its acquisition by Novant Health in 2021. The construction of the attached Novant Health Scotts Hill Medical Center will double the size of the existing emergency department, which remained open during construction. 

The emergency department expansion is expected to be completed this summer.  

The $48 million, 60,000-square-foot medical office building on the Scotts Hill Medical Center campus, which opened in 2024, includes primary care, general surgery and a cancer center with radiation oncology, in addition to other services. 

“We’ve already had an anchor point in that community for many years with the outpatient surgery center there and then an emergency room that’s been almost a decade there,” Rush told the Business Journal in February.

Ken Williamson, senior design and construction manager at Novant Health, told the Business Journal in February that the Scotts Hill medical campus has been designed for future growth, with plans to eventually build additional medical office buildings on the Pender County side of the property.