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RALEIGH, N.C. — The newest taxpayer-funded hospital in North Carolina is one that most state residents will never visit for care.
The $155 million health complex in Central Prison replaces medical facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s. Prison officials will begin transferring inmates to the new hospital in mid-November, and demolition of the old hospital will begin a couple weeks later.
“We are limited in our old facility. We’re having to take so many more folks out even to see a doctor in his office after hours,” Jennie Lancaster, deputy secretary of the state Department of Correction, said Wednesday during a tour of the new hospital.
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