Monday's Internet Edition, May 12, 2008.
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| Baptist Hospital Interim President Donny Lambeth shows the look of the urgent care center being constructed in Mocksville. - Photo by Robin Snow |
Actually, the state Certificate of Need (CON) section will have more to think about than its recent decision to deny plans by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center to build the replacement, and by Novant/Forsyth to build a replacement for Medical Park Hospital in Clemmons.
Both of those groups are appealing the state’s decision.
And on Tuesday, Baptist interim president Donny Lambeth said that hospital is submitting two new CON proposals, what he calls a comprehensive effort to get a new hospital in Davie County.
“We are pursuing every avenue to obtain the state’s approval,” Lambeth said. “We believe this comprehensive approach will give us the best chance for approval to build a world-class community hospital in Davie County.”
Both of the new proposals eliminate the beds called “long term acute care,” designed for patients who need 15 or more days in the hospital to recover but do not need acute care the entire time. The federal government placed a moratorium on reimbursements for that type of care after the first proposal was submitted.
The two new proposals by Baptist are similar, except one calls for 50 acute care beds, and the other calls for 46 acute care beds and four OB/GYN beds.
“The reason we omitted OB beds ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.