HAYMARKET, Va. -- The Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia has recommended approval of Prince William Health System's proposal to build a hospital in the Haymarket area.
The board met Monday night to consider two competing applications to build new hospitals in the Gainesville and Haymarket area. Members voted to recommend approving the health system's proposal to build a 60-bed hospital next to the Heathcote Health Center, near the intersection of U.S. 15 and Interstate 66.
The board also voted to recommend denying Sentara Healthcare’s application to build a 60-bed hospital on Wellington Road.
The recommendations will now go to the state health commission, which will make a final decision in August.
The board voted to recommend only one of the two applications because “there’s not a need for two hospitals in the western Prince William County area,” said Dean Montgomery, executive director of the health systems agency.
“The Prince William Health System plan had a better location, was less costly and fits better within the system that’s already there,” Montgomery said.
At a public hearing last week, several people spoke in favor of Prince William Health System’s plan, because that group already serves the western Prince William County area both at Prince William Hospital in Manassas and at Healthcote in the Haymarket area.
Speakers also expressed concerns about the location proposed by Sentara, which also operates Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge. Their plan would put the hospital close to Jiffy Lube Live, which could cause traffic and noise problems for the hospital speakers said.
“The Prince William Health System’s plan doesn’t have the site problems that the Sentara site has,” Montgomery said.
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