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- Title: How Big Does This Hospital Need to be? the City and the Health System Just Don't Agree, And Time to Change the Plans is Running Short. How Big Does This Hospital Need to be? (Business)
- Author : The Virginian Pilot
- Release Date : January 06, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 90 KB
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Norfolk | A fixture in Norfolk since the time of the great yellow fever epidemic in the 1850s, what is now Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center has a long history of serving the city's needs. + But the question of how best to serve the community in the future is a matter of contention between Norfolk city officials and Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System, which owns the hospital. + The dispute erupted publicly in June when Norfolk withdrew its official support for a Bon Secours reorganization plan that would leave DePaul with 64 beds, just over a quarter of its current size of 238 beds. The city reacted after its hired consultant recommended that DePaul should be a 134-bed hospital with more services. + Kent Stevens, president of Berkeley Medical Group in Northern Virginia, said the city came to him and said, "We're not a health care provider. ... We really would like to make heads or tails of what's being proposed here. Is this a right-sized hospital?" See Page 3 The disagreement comes while there's still time for Bon Secours to change its proposal, which is subject to approval by the state health commissioner's office. State regulations call for a public hearing on proposed health care projects, and changes to the proposals can be made before, but not after. The public hearing for Bon Secours' projects is scheduled for 10 a.m. July 18 at the Lifestyle Center on the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center campus.