The CPAM Passed....

Board Adopts Countywide Health Care Facilities Plan

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors has adopted a Countywide Health Care
Facilities Plan with policies designed to guide the location and type of
health care facilities and health care-related businesses throughout the
county.

The goals of the plan include promoting:

* development and provision of high quality health care services within
Loudoun County;
* appropriate access to health care services for residents of all parts of
the county;
* development of a broad range and improved distribution of services in the
county;
* development of sophisticated, high-level health care services for health
care consumers;
* choice for health care consumers;
* development of systems to provide care to all persons, including the
uninsured, and to support community health programs;
* enhancement of the Loudoun County tax base, employment, growth, and
economic development;
* availability in the future of sufficient land in appropriate locations
for health care facilities and services; and
* development of a new hospital in the Dulles South area, which is
experiencing rapid population growth and which presently has poor access to
any hospital.

Adoption of the plan came after a public process that began in mid-2004 when
the Board initiated an amendment to the Loudoun County Comprehensive Plan to
include countywide health care facilities policies. The process included
extensive public input, including stakeholders meetings, public input
sessions and public hearings by the Planning Commission and Board of
Supervisors.

Also Tuesday, the Board sent to its Human Services Committee a suggestion
from the Planning Commission that the county consider forming a medical task
force or health care committee and also consider creating a program, with a
coordinator, for the care of the uninsured and indigent.

More information about the Countywide Health Care Facilities plan is
available on the Loudoun County Government Website at
www.loudoun.gov/compplan/healthcare.htm .

 

I could be wrong, but it is my understanding that HCA will not be building the new hospital in Broadlands.

Please confirm.

 

Can't confirm anything ... HCA has not made its intentions known.

However, IMHO ... next stop ... the courts !!

Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

This latest vote from the BOS to support the CPAM is great for all of Loudoun County, with the suggested locations mentioned in the document. As far as your question about will they be able to build here in Broadlands the answer is: They received denial from the Planning Commission (13 reasons for that denial) pertaining to their zoning. They no longer hold a valid COPN for the Broadlands site, they are still waiting to hear from Stroube about the reversal on his first opinion of denial for them. One can only hope there will come a time when Tennessee decides to move somewhere else to build a hospital and that too much money has been spent on this particular location. With the most recent VA state Supreme Court ruling on growth, that really opens the field for HCA to select another location.

AFGM: I have held my tongue the many times you have been nasty to me. I have held my tongue when you have put your two cents in about your opinions on anything. I have held my tongue when you get on your high horse when anyone on this forum expresses a different opinion than the one you have. I think your most recent comment about calling someone a liar has gone too far. Keep your personal attacks to yourself. As we have discussed many times, personal attacks are not appropriate and show a degree of immaturity. I thought we as adults have outgrown that. You have the Ashburn Farms forum to participate in, don't think your position there holds any importance to us here in Broadlands. I hope the webmaster takes note of your derogatory comments.

 

Donna, welcome back. As for Barb, she started it by calling me a "communist", which I think is hilarious. Glad to see you continued to monitor the activity in the forum. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

I'll tell you what, I'll withdraw my post, although it still is true.

 

AFGM, if you want to change my opinion that you engage in formulaic agitprop for the purpose of fooling an actuarial percentage of newbies, you will have to stop putting words in people's mouths, rearranging the truth, and engaging in tautology (when it suits your angle of the moment). I never "called you a 'communist'". However, if you are now left-handedly (oops! sorry for the pun!) admitting that my analysis of your agitation formula is correct, thank you.

As for the CPAM, this recent flurry of heavy activism by BRMC and HCA-Reston about something that wasn't on the agenda, doesn't have a COPN, and isn't moving very fast to turn accumulated land into a site appears (judging from the heavy show of bused employees and the court reporter) to be little more than staged for the lawsuit; It will all reappear in court as "massive citizen support".

Barbara Munsey, from South Riding.