By Michelle CrouchCo-published with The Charlotte LedgerFor years, Charlotte’s health care market has been dominated by two names: Atrium Health and Novant Health. In April, Duke Health paid $284 million to acquire Lake Norman Regional in Mooresville, rebranding it as Duke Health Lake Norman. Atrium has perfected this approach, combining first with Navicent Health in Georgia, then with Wake Forest Baptist and finally with Advocate Aurora Health in 2022 to form the country’s third-largest public health care system. He noted that Duke also partners with Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health, which owns nine smaller community hospitals in North Carolina. For now, many questions remain about the partnership: Will Duke doctors actually practice in Novant hospitals, or will Novant doctors collaborate with Duke specialists virtually?