The largest hospital in Cleveland, Tennessee, is rallying residents to oppose an effort by a competing health care company to build a freestanding emergency room nearby.
Bradley Medical Center, owned and operated by Dalton, Georgia-based nonprofit Vitruvian Health, posted a petition to its website calling on a state commission to reject the proposal by Parkridge Health System, owned by Nashville-based for-profit HCA Healthcare.
Parkridge announced in November that it planned to build a $17.4 million freestanding ER at 2375 Blackburn Road SE in Bradley County, around 5 miles from Bradley Medical Center.
The ER would be 10,860 square feet, with 11 exam rooms, a lab, an imaging department and a nurse station, according to a letter of intent Parkridge filed with the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission.
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