High Point Regional Files to Relocate LINAC to Greensboro; Hearing April 8

High Point Regional Health has filed a Certificate of Need application to move a linear accelerator, and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services published a public notice of that filing on March 6, 2026, with a public hearing set for April 8, 2026. The DHSR notice states the purpose as a relocation of "a linear accelerator (a major radiation‑therapy machine) from High Point Medical C," the supplied text showing the origin phrase truncated as "High Point Medical C."

A linear accelerator is named in the DHSR excerpt as "a major radiation‑therapy machine," the device used for external-beam radiation treatments. The March 6, 2026 public notice triggers DHSR’s CON review process and the scheduled April 8 hearing will be the formal opportunity for hospital officials, clinicians and members of the public to present comments to the agency about the proposed relocation.

Documents supplied for a separate matter make clear CON filings for LINACs in Guilford County have different applicants and timelines. Project ID G-12566-24, for Wesley Long Hospital, lists The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation as the applicants and describes the proposal this way: "The applicant proposes to replace an existing linear accelerator (LINAC) at Cone Health Cancer Center at Wesley Long ('CHCC-WL')." That Wesley Long CON review records a Decision Date of March 28, 2025 and a Findings Date of April 4, 2025, and identifies Project Analyst Crystal Kearney and Co-Signer Micheala Mitchell, with facility identifier FID #933540 in Guilford County.

State planning guidance cited in the Wesley Long materials clarifies service-area boundaries that matter to patients and regulators: "A linear accelerator’s service area is one of the 28 multicounty groupings described in the Assumptions of the Methodology," and "In Table 15C-4, page 324 of the 2024 SMFP, Guilford County is included in Linear Accelerator Service Area 12. Linear Accelerator Service Area 12 includes Guilford and Rockingham counties. Thus, the service area for this project consists of those two counties. Facilities may also serve residents of counties not included in their service area. [...] NA"

The two sets of records point to separate CON matters rather than a single unified action: the High Point Regional filing was publicly noticed March 6, 2026 and describes a relocation, while the Cone Health/Wesley Long record, Project ID G-12566-24, documents a replacement decision finalized in March–April 2025. The Wesley Long review explicitly states the applicant did not propose to reduce, eliminate or relocate a service, noting "Therefore, Criterion (3a) is not applicable to this review," while the High Point notice specifically references a relocation in its summary language.

Key items that remain to be confirmed from primary DHSR records include the full text of the March 6, 2026 notice to complete the truncated origin facility name, the exact Greensboro destination facility and address, the April 8, 2026 hearing time and location, and whether either filing references transfer or reuse of equipment from another hospital. Named contacts for follow-up in the supplied materials are High Point Regional Health, The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and DHSR, and the Wesley Long project lists Crystal Kearney as Project Analyst and Micheala Mitchell as Co-Signer.

DHSR’s April 8, 2026 hearing will determine the next procedural step in the High Point Regional filing; the Cone Health/Wesley Long decision record from March 28, 2025 and April 4, 2025 remains the most recent completed CON action for a LINAC in Guilford County as reflected in the supplied documents.