Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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Davie residents mingle with Novant/Medical Park Hospital officials at an informational meeting last week in Oak Valley. - Photo by Robin Snow
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The meeting, held in the clubhouse Oct. 16, took place one night after Baptist officials held an informational meeting at Hillsdale Baptist Church. About 30 people attended the Forsyth meeting.
Mona Potts, a Davie resident, was one of them.
“The idea is great,” she said, “but I would be more in favor of something in Davie, since that is where I live. But it’s also about the physicians, because where your doctor is is where you are most likely to go.”
Potts said she has been a nurse and patient at both hospitals.
Greg Beier, CEO of Forsyth Medical Center, said the plan is to build a 50-bed facility on approximately 80 acres of land under contract.
“We are required to have the land under contract to apply for the certificate of need from the state,” he said.
The facility would feature a 12-room emergency department, four intensive care unit beds, full-time physicians, a CT scanner, mobile MRI, five operating rooms and a full diagnostic services lab. There would be no labor and delivery available, because Beier said there is already a “great facility” for that at Forsyth Medical Center.
The new hospital, which would be called Medical Park Hospital Clemmons, would provide services that would no longer be available at the 40-year-old Medical Park Hospital in Winston-Salem. Beier said 73 percent of Lewisville and Clemmons residents and 60 percent of Davie residents who were ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028