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Loudoun Hospital & Inova Health System support a second hospital in Loudoun County.
But, Broadlands is the wrong location for three primary, important & compelling reasons:
A. By locating within 5 miles of the existing hospital, BRMC fails to improve access to life & death medical emergency services for Loudoun families currently at risk
- Minutes matter in hospital care access in the "golden hour" of life & death emergencies
- 5-mile proximity leaves majority of Loudoun families still too far from hospital services
- BRMC's promise of a hospital without a helipad is irresponsible & puts patient lives at risk
- The County Comprehensive Plan identifies Route 50 as the best site to improve emergency access
- A hospital in Broadlands effectively kills a future hospital on Route 50
- Economic realities will cause elimination of existing medical services at Lansdowne & Leesburg
B. BRMC constrains development of the kinds of higher-level medical services that Loudoun citizens must now leave the County to access
- Proximity financially constrains both BRMC & ILH from investing in higher-level services
- BRMC duplication of existing medical services still forces patients to leave Loudoun for care
- BRMC alliance with CNMC forces Loudoun critical care children to travel to Washington, D.C.
- State regulators say Loudoun Hospital must close 16 current medical beds if BRMC is built.
C. BRMC undermines the intent of the Loudoun County Comprehensive Plan & violates existing zoning laws at the Broadlands site where HCA wants to build
- Comprehensive Plan policies were developed by the community in an extensive public process
- Comprehensive Plan encourages "wide dispersal" of hospital services to meet disaster threats
- Loudoun Hospital has invested more than $200 million in Comprehensive Plan service vision
- Loudoun Hospital plans another $300 million over the next 5 years in higher level medical services
- Aligned with the Comprehensive Plan, doctors built a $28 million MOB on the Leesburg campus
- Loudoun Hospital's investment of more than $11 million in community health programs will be cut
- BRMC was turned down in 2005 on 14-points of non-compliance with zoning law