UNC Health and Duke Health are partnering to build a new children's health system that will include North Carolina's first freestanding pediatric hospital, the pair announced Tuesday. | The academic health systems' vision,

The health systems announced on Tuesday a plan to build a more than 100-acre campus for the hospital called, NC Children’s.

UNC Health and Duke University Health System, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Durham, N.C., respectively, are uniting to build a comprehensive healthcare campus, featuring the state's first freestanding children's hospital.

Two North Carolina-based university health systems have announced an agreement to construct the state’s first standalone children’s hospital.

Duke Health and UNC Health are creating a new nonprofit, N.C. Children’s, to build and operate the 500-bed hospital. A site has not yet been chosen but is expected to be announced this summer. It will involve a campus of at least 100 acres with a children’s outpatient center and a children’s behavioral health hospital.

President Trump issued a directive temporarily halting communications, meetings and purchases related to federal health care research grants.

The Triangle's preeminent healthcare systems announced a partnership to help advance a $2 billion children's health campus in North Carolina.

NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) — UNC Health and Duke Health are uniting to open a new private children's hospital. The hospital will have 500 beds, a play area and rehab facilities. A press release from Duke Health said they're teaming up to provide a higher volume of highly specialized pediatric care.

The health systems announced on Tuesday a plan to build a more than 100-acre campus for the hospital called, NC Children’s.

Under a five-year agreement, Cone Health doctors and athletic trainers will provide exclusive care for athletes at the university.

North Carolina was the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Lambeth said lawmakers in some of the holdout states have been impressed with North Carolina’s decision to pass expansion with a provision to create a workforce development program for beneficiaries.