2013-01-04 Certificate of Public Need Special Call Meeting
January 29,2013
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC NEED RESOLUTION
2013-01-04
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County has approved two past resolutions
in support of Certificates of Public Need for new or upgraded medical facilities and services in
Pittsylvania County,and
WHEREAS, the applicants for the Certificates of Public Need are Centra Health, Inc,
("Centra"), which has proposed a comprehensive medical care facility in Gretna, Virginia, that
includes a 24/7 emergency department with a CT scanner, and Danville Diagnostic Imaging
Center, LLC("DDIC"), which has proposed placing a CT scanner in Chatham, Virginia,and
WHEREAS, there is a significant need for the medical facilities and services for both economic
development reasons and improved services to the citizens of the County, particularly in the
central and northern ends of the County,and
WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Health's Division of Certificate of Public Need
("DCOPN"), held a public hearing on Thursday, January 11, 2013, to receive citizen input on
DDIC's Certificate of Public Need application for a CT scanner in Chatham, Virginia and on
Centra's Certificate of Public Need application for its comprehensive medical facility and CT
scanner in Gretna, Virginia, and this hearing was attended by over 700 County citizens making it
one of the largest public hearings for a Certificate of Public Need ever held by DCOPN,and
WHEREAS, the DCOPN staff report recommends that the Commissioner of Health
conditionally approve both applications for Certificates of Public Need, which would provide
over $2,000,000 in equipment and 10 new jobs in Chatham, Virginia and over $23.8 million in
building and equipment and 74 new jobs in Gretna, Virginia, providing the desperately needed
improvements to medical services and economic development in the County,and
WHEREAS, in spite of the overwhelming show of community support and need for improved
medical facilities in the County, DDIC has filed a letter in opposition to the staff report and
requested an Informal Fact Finding Conference be convened by February 4, 2013 and further in
spite of the fact that DCOPN recommended that DDIC's project be approved exactly as DDIC
had requested in its application, then
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County, Virginia
strongly disagrees with DDIC's letter and the delay it will cause in the implementations of the
proposed improvements needed in Pittsylvania County and requests that the Commissioner of
Health accept the DCOPN staff report and move forward with the approval of the projects and
with the issuance of the Certificates of Public Need,and
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Special Call Meeting
January 29,2013
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the
Commissioner of Health. The Director of the Division of Licensure and Certification and the
Director of the Division of Certificate of Public Need and all the local representatives in the
Virginia General Assembly.
Given under my hand this 29nd day of January, 2013.
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arshall A. Eckel.,Chairman
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Adjournment
Motion was made by Mr. Snead, seconded by Mr. Barber, to adjourn the meeting, which
was unanimously approved by the Board. •
The meeting adjourned at 5:39pm.
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