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Broadlands citizens sound off on hospital plan
Competing groups of Broadlands citizens have entered the public relations fray over HCA's application to build a 164-bed hospital in their community.
Concerned Citizens of Broadlands – reach the group at stopbrmc.com – announced last month that it accepted a $20,000 donation from Inova Loudoun Hospital to advance its campaign to block that application.
On July 25, the Broadlands Residents for Broadlands Regional Medical Center announced it is "reaching out to educate the community and to gather support from residents of Broadlands and Loudoun who want improved health care through competition from BRMC."
The pro-hospital group claims to be "funded exclusively by residents and is not seeking or accepting any funds from any outside organizations including HCA/BRMC." Reach it at broadlandsforbrmc.com.
Inova Loudoun Hospital has opposed HCA's application to build a competing facility five miles from its front door in Lansdowne since the plan first surfaced in 2002. The State Health Commissioner has approved the Broadlands project, but in August 2005 the Board of Supervisors rejected the application based on land-use concerns. HCA, the largest for-profit hospital corporation in the country and parent of Reston Hospital Center, went to Circuit Court to overturn that denial.
In March 2008, a new Board of Supervisors agreed to take another look at the application in return for HCA's dropping all litigation.
The resuscitated application to allow a hospital on the 58-acre site on Broadlands Boulevard just west of the public schools' administration building is working its way through the county's planning and zoning processes.
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