Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, September 21, 1993 TAG: 9309210086
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
The town Planning Commission will recommend approval to the governing body.
Both Pulaski and Radford Community Hospital are seeking state approval for such a unit. The Radford proposal calls for the facility to be built separately from the hospital.
Council has scheduled a public hearing on the matter for 7 p.m.
A panel from the Southwest Virginia Health Systems Agency is scheduled to make a recommendation Oct. 6 to another panel from the office of the state mental health commissioner. The second panel will make its recommendation to the commissioner, who is expected to decide which, if either, hospital will get to build the unit.
Pulaski's proposal calls for an addition to accommodate patient services, a lobby, reception area, examination rooms, offices and the equipment. Its defined service area would include the counties of Montgomery, Floyd, Wythe, Carroll, Giles and Pulaski and the cities of Galax and Radford, although it could extend as far west as Smyth County.
Patients from that region now must drive to Roanoke to receive cancer treatment.
The Pulaski hospital employs 350 people from the town. The proposed treatment center would add 12 or more employees. The hospital is licensed for 153 acute-care beds.
by CNB