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Access to healthcare services in Loudoun County depends on where you live.
Many Loudoun County residents live within 20 minutes of a hospital. This is particularly true in Eastern Loudoun, where hospital care is a short drive away.
- Eastern Loudoun residents have nearby access to hospitals and emergency care facilities in Landsdowne and Leesburg. Many Loudoun residents choose to cross the county line and receive their care in neighboring Fairfax County, also just minutes away. Overall, this region is well-served by Inova Loudoun Hospital in Loudoun County, and by HCA’s Reston Hospital and Inova’s Fair Oaks Hospital in neighboring Fairfax County. In fact, HCA Reston Hospital’s recent expansion was largely in response to population growth in Loudoun County.
- Broadlands residents live just 5 miles from Inova Loudoun Hospital.
However, residents living in other parts of Loudoun — namely those in the southern and western parts of the county — lack sufficient access to hospitals and healthcare facilities.
- Many western and southern Loudoun residents have greater distances to travel to acute- and emergency-care facilities, and live between 20 and 30 minutes from a hospital. This is in part because there are no hospitals west of Leesburg.
- Residents of southwestern Loudoun live more than 35 minutes from a hospital.
- Those living in the Middleburg area of southwestern Loudoun now have the longest travel times to a general hospital — about 35 minutes.
Loudoun County adopted a Countywide Health Facilities Plan, part of the county’s comprehensive planning effort, to address these realities and ensure that all residents have convenient, equal access to health facilities — regardless of where they live. The plan considered anticipated population growth, and access and travel times to medical care services in Loudoun County over the next 20 years, and provides guidance about how to address healthcare facility needs in the future.
The plan’s findings and the recommended location for the next Loudoun County hospital are clear: Route 50 is where Loudoun’s next hospital should be built.
- The Plan calls for “development of a new hospital in the Dulles South area of the county, which is experiencing rapid population growth and which presently has poor access to any hospital.”
- The Route 50 corridor “should be given special consideration for the next full-service hospital and EMS ambulance-receiving facility to be built in the county.”
- Drive time for residents living in the Route 50 corridor would be significantly reduced if a hospital is built in the Dulles South Area.
Tell the Board of Supervisors to stick to the plan ... the next Loudoun County hospital belongs on Route 50.
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