- It's a great partnership here between two amazing universities, two wonderful health systems in UNC Health and Duke Health to build a specialized children's hospital.

It's going to be located in Western Wake County, near the highway, so it's easily accessible to as many people as possible.

The state has already invested $380 million in this.

They'll certainly invest some more over time as we build this up.

Both Duke and UNC are fundraising to contribute to that figure.

And they'll roll in their practices in those fields in order to support this multibillion dollar project.

And it's interesting, because I hear people ask the question, well, don't we have children's hospitals elsewhere?

And of course, we have regular practices in this area, and they're called children's hospitals.

But this is a very specialized level of care.

Right now, North Carolina sends thousands of very young people to other states, because we really don't have the facilities and the level of care that exists in some other places.

Well, that can be very difficult on families who aren't able to travel easily with their loved ones.

And so to have that here in North Carolina and more accessible to everyone, that's going to be critical to meeting that need.