N.C. denies Rex on Cary, Holly Springs facilities

State regulators have rejected Rex Healthcare's plans to build new facilities in Holly Springs and Cary.

Rex said in a statement Wednesday that the state Division of Health Service Regulation denied the health system's application to build a 9,000-square-foot urgent care facility in Holly Springs. Rex's application to build both a 16,000-square-foot urgent care center and a 16,000-square-foot cancer center in the Panther Creek area of Cary also was denied.

The not-for-profit health care system, part of UNC Health Care, did win state permission to upgrade cancer-treatment equipment at its main hospital in Raleigh.

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Rex will appeal the Holly Springs and Cary decisions to the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings.

"We are pleased the state has approved our plans to upgrade our radiation therapy equipment," David Strong, president of Rex Healthcare, said in a written statement. "However, we are very disappointed the state denied our applications to expand quality health care to Holly Springs and western Wake County. We are confident these plans meet community needs and state requirements and will be approved upon appeal."