Broadlands Hospital

Another thing to consider is how likely local businesses will do better with an influx of a few hundred hospital employees.

Sure, an office park would do the same but I doubt an office park will have as many employees as the hospital would.

 

cindyb-
Children's will be setting up the Pediatric Emergency Room and Services, as well as helping staff it. They will also be sharing many of their specialists between this facility and the one downtown. I got this information directly from them.
Hope that answers some of your questions.

 

Redon-
The state requires that property have water and sewer services already available before they will grant a COPN.
BRMC was looking for approximately 60 acres to build on.
At the time, this was one of the few parcels of land that fit that criteria. It was also the farthest parcel to the west along the Greenway which, like it or not, offers the fastest transportation through the county.
Also remember that when Inova asked the county about where to build a hospital in the county, the county staff's answer was loud and clear....as far west on the Greenway as you can build it. This property is it.
Inova chose not to build one, but went into a failed partnership with Loudoun Hospital. As we all know, they eventually acquired Loudoun Hospital.

 

Hmmm? Do we need another hospital? Or could the existing one be expanded to accomodate demand?

It seems that since we are building one only 5 miles (4 as the crow flies), additional beds at Loudoun Inova could take care of the blossoming population for the next 5-10 years.
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Just my .02.

 

Ok, but it still would leave us with just 1 hospital. I am all for the competition and a company that will also pay taxes.

 

Mr. Linux, this is precisely what needs to be said if there are meetings held by the BoS to get the REAL pulse of the community on how we feel about BMRC. Someone like ME has NO CLUE how special Children's Hospital is until someone like YOU shares a story.

how could anyone deny a community that kind of treatment, especially when other benefits are coming along with it- the road improvements, taxes paid, etc? worth a little extra traffic, imho.

and if HCA doesn't pay their taxes or build the roads, i know some boiz in Joisey that will go after their kneecaps...

 

This is why I have wondered aloud if the partnership with Children's can actually help property values overall--my gut tells me that many families with younger children will find this a huge benefit.

 

Guess y'all can start pulling your funds out of the fund Lee set up.

 

This whole thing is out of control. My mailbox is now receiving letters addressed from the "Concerned Citizens of Broadlands" with regards to this hospital. I'm all for people having a cause....and standing up for what the believe in. What i don't like is when they decide that i need to know about it. Then..after they decide that i need to know about it...they ask me to give them money to fight it. How is my donation of $50 going to help the "Concerned Citizens of Broadlands"? They didn't tell me what my money would be for...just that i should be concerned....join them in their concern...and give them money. I might send them an envelope requesting money...see what kind of response i get.

 

woopity,

Since this is their first attempt at fund raising my guess is your $50 would go to past expenses for their lawyer fees or other expenses. That lawyer has been on the payroll for months now.

Here's a little math...

Most corporate lawyers charge at least $250 an hour and chances are a lot more than that. Let's take the $20,000 they got from Inova. $20000/$250 = 80 hours. This lawyer has sat through countless County meetings, and countless Board of Supervisor meetings listening, writing speeches, and speaking. That 80 hours is chewed up, gone. I am not even considering expenses or law firm administrative fees.

Let's add in the cost of the CCoB phone calls everyone has been getting. How much is that costing.

The CCoB also hired a PR director, no telling how much that is.

This thing is really fishy. There must be another source of income, or a lot more cash is being pushed under the table, away from the public's eye.

If anyone was considering giving them anything I'd certainly ask some tough questions before writing a check. Or I'd tell them to keep getting their money from Inova. They've got deep pockets.

BTW, has anyone heard from Donna about how they resolved the whole opt in/opt out controversy?

 

We received the letter requesting donations from Concerned Citizens of Broadlands. Sadly, we are neither concerned, nor citizens of Broadlands. Wasted postage.

*whenever I hear Concerned Citizens of Broadlands, I picture a roomful of women who look just like the original Gladys Kravitz (not the more pleasant looking 2.0 version)

 

LOL - we got the same letter as well and the BRMC mailer.

Bad enough CCB has used our emails for Spam - now we are getting it in the snail mail, both sides call our house (usually when I am putting the little pea down . ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

makes me think CCB did a "mail blitz" and didn't bother to drill down - regardless it is annoying to have other peoples agenda invade the privacy of one's home (phone calls at dinner or bath time etc).

 

We get NADA. No calls, no mail.

SWEEEET!

 

dang - teach me the T8er magic...pretty please...is there a DO NOT MAIL list?

 

All,

I have twin 3 year olds that we now take to kennedy krieger and DC Childrens.... the experts we need are not at Landsdowne... but would be at BRMC - not only those that work in the hospital but likely those extra services that parents like me rely greatly on and currently struggle to find in locally.

I can not wait for this hospital to be build - to all of those that are trying to block this remember a hospital is being built for the community and there are many that need it

 

You are privy to the list of doctors and specific services that will be available at BRMC? I hope that you don't have the impression that they are building a copy of Children's Hospital out here. To me it appears to be a licensing agreement. I hate to be a killjoy, but you probably with still find the services and doctors that you want are downtown.

We have traveled to Gaithersburg and Baltimore for my daughter who has mild scoliosis, and to Fairfax for a neurologist for my other daughter's nervous system disorder.
We will continue to travel to these places, unless the doctors that we currently see happen to move to BRMC. Just because they have a neurologist at Loudoun Inova or the planned BRMC doesn't mean that I will take my youngest. I think that many parents behave the same way.

 

won't this hospital take years to be operational? even if they break ground in 2009, how long before patients are actually being seen- 5, 8 years? I'm asking- not guessing.

 

It is suppose to take 18 months from the time the project is approved until the doors can open.

Staci

 

They have said that there will be actual Children's doctors available but so far the only service specifically named is pediatric emergency services (however with plans for a pediatric and adolescent psychiatry unit I wouldn't be surprised if they invite CNMC specialists on-board for that).

I can poll a few contacts I have regarding the availability of certain CNMC services/doctors at BRMC, but that information may not yet be ready for public consumption... so I won't be too optimistic about my ability to get it right now. If I hear more, I'll let you all know.