A proposed surgery center for Smithfield Township, Pa., by Pennsylvania-based Coordinated Health, has received conditional approval from the town's supervisors, according to a report from the Pocono Record.
Conditions for construction of the surgery center, to be built along with a short-stay hospital, center around parking, limiting lighting exposure to neighbors and a pedestrian walkway.
Construction is expected to start later this year.
Coordinated Health wants to build a surgery center with 4 ORs and 10 patient rooms. It hopes to provide overnight care for up to four days but current interpretations of the healthcare reform law would force the surgery center to only perform ambulatory surgery not requiring an overnight stay, according to the report and earlier reports.
The approval came despite objections from officials of Pocono Medical Center in East Stroudsburg, Pa., who claimed the new surgery center would reduce revenues of the non-profit hospital and hinder services to the poor, according to earlier reports.
Read the Pocono Record report about the Smithfield Township surgery center.
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