HCA Healthcare is seeking state approval to build what would be its first hospital in Hanover County, extending its reach to a part of the region where a competitor hospital is wrapping up a sizable renovation project, Richmond BizSense reports.
The Nashville-based health system wants to build a 60-bed, $233.6 million acute-care hospital that would rise on a site just off of I-95 near Ashland, according to a certificate of public need application filed with the state health department.
HCA intends to buy the 40-acre site for the hospital from entities tied to the Pruitt family for $14.5 million.
The four parcels that make up the project site were most recently assessed by the county at $3.3 million, according to online property records. Read more.
