Va. Officials Approve New Hospital in Loudoun County
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Friday, September 18, 2009; 6:03 PM
The Virginia State Health Commissioner approved an application Friday for a new hospital to be built by Hospital Corp. of America along Route 50 in Loudoun County.
The hospital, a 164-bed acute-care facility called StoneSpring Medical Center, is slated to be completed by the end of 2015. It now needs approval from the Loudoun Board of Supervisors before construction can begin.
HCA, a for-profit hospital system in Virginia, has been involved in a years-long fight with rival Inova Health System, which lobbied state officials to tack a number of conditions onto HCA's proposal, to no avail. Inova officials had cited "grave concerns" about HCA's hospital plan, saying they feared HCA was simply trying to tie up hospital bed space in Northern Virginia.
After the application's approval was announced, Inova said it would not oppose the decision and that it would withdraw a lawsuit against HCA and its own application for a hospital on Route 50.
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