Friday's Internet Edition, May 09, 2008.
They Hope Right Figures, Petitions, Could Lead To New Hospital
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Before he read it, he didn’t understand why the state officials would deny Davie County Hospital’s proposal to building a replacement facility in Hillsdale.
He still doesn’t understand why. As in most bureacratic documents, some of it just didn’t make sense, more of something a lawyer might understand, he said.
And as a member of the Citizens for Access to Community Healthcare (CATCH), he’s not taking the news sitting down. “There’s a lot of positives in there,” he said. “It states that Davie County Hospital demonstrated the need for a new hospital.”
Foust joined Davie County Manager Terry Bralley, hospital administrator Lynn Doss, Davie Chamber of Commerce director Joan Carter and Davie GIS and Public Safety Administrator John Gallimore on Tuesday in coming up with ways to argue points about Davie County’s population distribution they say the state agency got wrong.
Because the new hospital would be in a different ZIP code, and the fact they used 2000 Census data, the state miscalculated how many residents would be served within a 13-mile radius, members of the group said.
Gallimore said he used conservative figures to show the new hospital, by the state’s own standards, would serve nearly 80 percent of the county’s population. Many of those left live in Cooleemee, residents ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.