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For Immediate Release
For more information, contact:
Lynne Zultanky, MSRT
Director, Corporate Communications and Media Relations
Phone: 757-889-5550, Pager: 757-680-3296
E-mail: Lynn_Zultanky@bshsi.org

Bon Secours Progresses Successfully in Implementing its Bold New Vision

Suffolk, Va. (October 10, 2007) Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is pleased to announce, in a board meeting on October 9, 2007, the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency Board (EVHSA) recommended for approval all three Certificates of Public Need for the proposed Bon Secours hospitals in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Suffolk. 

Recommendations were approved for the proposed Bon Secours Harbour View and Bon Secours Virginia Beach hospitals.  The recommendations for the Bon Secours DePaul campus reflects the alternative proposed the EVHSA staff report. 

The table below summarizes the recommendations approved by the EVHSA Board.

COPN application:

Decision by the local EVHSA board

Bon Secours
Health Center at Virginia Beach

Approved for a 96-bed hospital, without OB and skilled nursing beds but with radiation therapy services.
 

Bon Secours
Health Center at Harbour View

Approved for a 60-bed hospital, with cardiac catheterization and radiation therapy services.

Bon Secours
DePaul Medical Center 

Approved for a 58-60 bed hospital with service composition as follows:
50 medical/surgical bed hospital
8-10 OB bed unit 
6 operating rooms
Comprehensive imaging services
Emergency department
15-20 skilled nursing beds
No rehab beds

The next step in the Certificate of Public Need process is the independent state staff report, due out by October 19 and a hearing before a member of the Health Commissioner’s staff on November 14 and 15 in Richmond.  The EVHSA Board recommendation, the state reviewer’s report, and the adjudication officer’s report will be forwarded to the Health Commissioner who will render a final decision by early January.

 

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Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is a leading health care organization known for providing care for the whole person with grace and clinical distinction. Bon Secours brings together a network of hospitals, primary care practices, ambulatory care sites and continuing care facilities to provide quality health care services to the residents of Hampton Roads. Bon Secours, which employs more than 4,100, includes: Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center, Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, Mary Immaculate Hospital, Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View, Bon Secours Maryview Nursing Care Center and St. Francis Nursing Center

 

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