Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, April 22, 1995 TAG: 9504240042
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Short
"We have made a decision to not appeal," Radford Community spokeswoman Susan Lockwood said Friday. "We are pleased that there is going to be an oncology center in the New River Valley."
The two hospitals had been competing since 1993 for the radiation treatment center.
Following a public hearing that year on the issue in Radford, the regional Health Systems Agency staff in Roanoke recommended that Pulaski be the site. But the HSA put the project on hold and urged the two hospitals to find some way to work together on it.
After several months, the two hospitals were unable to reach any agreement. Last September, representatives for both hospitals made their cases at an informal fact-finding hearing in Richmond.
After receiving the information from the hearing, Acting Commissioner of Health Donald Stern chose the Pulaski proposal. Radford had 30 days to appeal that decision, but time was up this week.
When Stern announced his decision last month, officials at Pulaski Community said they would start work on their 9,986-square-foot center as quickly as final drawings could be approved.
by CNB