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Jun 13, 2022 · WBTV found six separate deeds of trust records involving Atrium, including Belk’s, through the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds office. We also found dozens of judgments against people that essentially turned into liens on homes that also mention Atrium as a creditor or having a judgment against the person.
The Register of Deeds Office is the official repository for all public records related to real property located in Mecklenburg County. The office records, maintains, and safeguards these and other public records presented for registration.
- Imated $1.8 Billion in Tax Breaks Statewide
- Hospitals Point to Millions in Community Benefit
- Critics Question Calculations
- Hospital Growth Comes at A Price
- Nonprofit Hospitals Must Prove Charitable Use
- Should They Qualify as Nonprofits?
- Atrium’s Special Status
- Atrium Unusual Among Hospital Authorities
- Some Governments Ask Hospitals to Pony Up
- Trying For Change in North Carolina
The Charlotte Ledger/N.C. Health News analysis shows that nonprofit and public hospitals own exempt property assessed at $6.3 billion in North Carolina’s five most populous counties. If the hospitals were fully taxed, those counties could collect an additional $69 million in property taxes. In addition to property tax exemptions, hospitals have the...
In response to questions about tax exemptions, Atrium and Novant said they have invested billions to help the communities they serve. In a statement, Atrium said it provided $875 million in community benefits in Mecklenburg County alone in 2021, part of a total of $2.46 billion across the system. The health system said community benefit made up 19....
Critics say hospitals calculate community benefit in a way that’s inflated and includes items that shouldn’t be counted because they have little effect on local community health needs. For example, 75 percent of Novant’s and 57 percent of Atrium’s community benefit total is what they call Medicaid and Medicare “shortfall.” That’s the difference bet...
Like other large health care systems, Atrium and Novant have been on a buying and building spree in recent decades. It’s part of a national trend of hospitals expanding and consolidating. As hospitals gobble up land and property, those parcels come off the tax rolls. Tax records show Atrium, acting as The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, h...
Under N.C. Statute 105-278.8, property owned by a nonprofit hospital like Novant can avoid taxes if it is “actually and exclusively used for charitable hospital purposes.” That means nonprofit hospitals can be asked to pay taxes for vacant land, but once they build a facility that is providing medical services on the site, they can apply for an exe...
In recent years, tax officials nationwide are more often questioning the first part of the equation: whether hospitals should qualify as nonprofits at all. In one recent case, a Pennsylvania court ruled in February that four hospitals there should not be exempt from local property taxes because they failed to prove they were operating as purely pub...
For hospital authorities like Atrium, it does not matter if a property is being used for a charitable purpose or not. Under state statute, hospital authorities — like other governmental entities — simply have to own the parcel. “Once they prove they own it, it’s done,” McLaughlin said. That allows Atrium to receive automatic exemptions on any prope...
There are eight other hospital authorities in North Carolina, according to registrations filed with the N.C. Secretary of State. None has expanded the way The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority has. Michael Fine, a health care attorney based in Louisville, Kentucky, who follows property tax exemption law, said hospital authorities were origin...
Some state and local governments across the country have enacted legislation asking hospitals and other nonprofits to do more in exchange for their tax breaks. Illinois, Oregon, Utah and Nevada all require hospitals to meet specific requirements in exchange for their tax exemptions, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy. The Ore...
Folwell, served in the N.C. House from 2005 to 2013, said he tried several times over the years to push through bills to cap hospital sales tax refunds or that asked more of hospitals in return for their tax exemptions. Each time, health care systems fought the changes, he said. More recently, Folwell has been holding news conferences to support a ...
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