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Article: BON SECOURS PLANS TO MOVE VA. HOSPITAL.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- July 12, 1999
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Bon Secours Health System is on the move again, this time hoping to relocate another one of its urban Virginia hospitals to the suburbs.
The proposed move continues a pattern at the Roman Catholic system of seeking greener pastures for some of its urban facilities.
On July 1, Bon Secours filed a certificate-of-need application with the state, seeking permission to move 158-bed Bon Secours-Stuart Circle Hospital from Richmond to a new $70.3 million, 130-bed replacement hospital in the affluent and growing suburb of Midlothian in Chesterfield County.
Part of the reason for Bon Secours' move is that Stuart Circle has been running at less than ...