VA Commissioner of Health extends COPN for HCA
Living in LoCo over at LoudounExtra.com is reporting that the Virginia Commissioner of Health has extended the Certificate of Public Need (COPN) granted to HCA when they asked to build their proposed hospital in Broadlands. What this means is that the Commissioner understands perfectly well that the public need for a new hospital, deemed necessary in 2003, hasn’t gotten any less applicable today. Even if others are focused on some arbitrary pin-on-the-map discussion, the Commissioner has focused on the real question: do we have the population to warrant the hospital and where is that population centered (if at all.)
Combined with the previously announced action by the VA Attorney General and the FTC to halt Inova become Prince William’s only provider, that’s a strong argument in favor of the Board approving the BRMC application and get this project started.
I’m a resident of northern Virginia, near Washington, DC. By profession, I’m a network engineer for a very, very large company in the IT field. I work with several federal agencies in my job. Politically, I lean conservative on most issues dealing with matters of law, finance, national security, and personal responsibility. I’m more moderate in the social arena but don’t confuse that with the so-called “liberal” stance. You’ll get the picture.
