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Eric Deaton
CEO,
Danville Regional
Medical Center
CEO,
Danville Regional
Medical Center
All of us at Danville Regional Medical Center are committed to providing the highest level of quality care to the citizens of the Dan River region. This blog was created so I could answer your questions about the Certificate of Public Need process and talk to you about why Centra’s proposed Outpatient Surgery Center is not what Danville needs.
Please send me your questions, comments and observations. I look forward to hearing from you, and I will respond as soon as possible.
Please send me your questions, comments and observations. I look forward to hearing from you, and I will respond as soon as possible.
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COPN Request No. VA-7726
A partnership of Local Surgeons and Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA, is proposing through the Virginia Certificate of Public Need process, to create a very profitable Outpatient Surgery Center that would employ only 17 people, primarily from Lynchburg. It will NOT be a hospital. There will be no critical care support and no inpatient surgeries performed there. Emergency patients are planned to be transported 70 miles by helicopter or ambulance to Lynchburg for critical care services.
Patients coming to the facility would be having elective outpatient surgical procedures, such as eye, ear, pain management and some orthopedic procedures. Approval of the Outpatient Surgery Center would jeopardize jobs at Danville Regional and threaten access to affordable healthcare, particularly for essential emergency services.
COPN Request No. VA-7740
Centra is proposing to add 1 MRI and 1 CT scanner at its facility. If approved, this will duplicate existing services in the area. Danville Diagnostic Imaging Center and Danville Regional already provide readily accessible CT, MRI and other diagnostic services. Centra’s COPN application does not seem to realize this.
A partnership of Local Surgeons and Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA, is proposing through the Virginia Certificate of Public Need process, to create a very profitable Outpatient Surgery Center that would employ only 17 people, primarily from Lynchburg. It will NOT be a hospital. There will be no critical care support and no inpatient surgeries performed there. Emergency patients are planned to be transported 70 miles by helicopter or ambulance to Lynchburg for critical care services.
Patients coming to the facility would be having elective outpatient surgical procedures, such as eye, ear, pain management and some orthopedic procedures. Approval of the Outpatient Surgery Center would jeopardize jobs at Danville Regional and threaten access to affordable healthcare, particularly for essential emergency services.
COPN Request No. VA-7740
Centra is proposing to add 1 MRI and 1 CT scanner at its facility. If approved, this will duplicate existing services in the area. Danville Diagnostic Imaging Center and Danville Regional already provide readily accessible CT, MRI and other diagnostic services. Centra’s COPN application does not seem to realize this.
DRMC & Centra Comparison
| DRMC | Centra | |
| Has critical care unit and staff |  |
NO |
| Has labor and delivery care |  |
NO |
| Number of operating rooms |
12 general purpose operating rooms providing the following surgeries:
|
2 general purpose operating rooms providing only the following surgeries and procedures: general, orthopedic, otolaryngology, opthamology and pain. |
| Procedure Rooms | 8 | 2 |
| Open Heart Surgery (Cardiac) Operating Rooms | 2 | 0 |
| Full Cardiac Services | |
NO |
| CT Scanners/MRI | 2 CT Scanners, 1 MRI with planned addition of 1 CT Scanner and 1 MRI. |
1 CT Scanner 1 MRI |
| Mobile PET Scanner | |
NO |
| Emergency Department |
24-hour emergency department
|
Urgent care
|
|
Pediatrics Care for infants, children and adolescents |
|
NO |
| Full range of diagnostics | |
NO |
| Urology surgical suite | Newly-renovated urology surgical suite - Allows physicians to perform procedures involving organs such as the kidneys, bladder and prostate, more effectively and efficiently. | NO |
| Pharmacy | |
NO |
| Full range of therapy | |
NO |
|
Linear Accelerator State-of-the-art device that allows physicians to treat cancer and protect surrounding tissue |
|
NO |
| Dialysis | |
NO |
| Social Work | |
NO |
| Psychiatric services | |
NO |
| Overflow ED for disasters | |
NO |
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