Bon Secours and HCA clashed on Thursday as they navigate the state’s approval process for competing plans for new facilities in Hanover County, VA, just north of Richmond.
The health systems each want to build new free-standing emergency centers with CT and MRI imaging machines within a few miles of each other south of Ashland, VA, Richmond BizSense reports.
Both projects are subject to regulatory approval and the companies presented yesterday before a state health department adjudicator, who will make a recommendation on what proposal should get final approval from State Health Commissioner Karen Shelton. The adjudicator’s consideration follows a lower-level staff recommendation last month to approve the Bon Secours proposal and reject the HCA project.
And while the dueling proposals were the subject of this week’s hearing, HCA’s additional, larger plans for a new hospital in Hanover loomed over the discussions.
HCA considers the emergency center as an alternative to the hospital and both projects are proposed for the same site. Read more.
