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Article: CHARITY CARE AT ISSUE IN BON SECOURS' CON.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- November 8, 1999
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The ``unremarkable record'' of the Bon Secours Health System in providing charity care in Virginia rebuts one of the Roman Catholic system's justifications for wanting to relocate one of its urban hospitals to the suburbs.
So says the staff of the state health department's certificate-of-need division in a report recommending the rejection of Bon Secours' CON application for the relocation project.
``Because of (Bon Secours') unremarkable record in the provision of charity care, it is doubtful that the project will result in any substantial increase in financial access to healthcare services for the population (in this area),'' the report said.