New Community Clinic in FTA?
Step one: Double the size of the gravel parking lot for staff at the hospital. “Some days you go by and it’s filled,” he said. “The Foundation has approved the funding and the plans are with the city engineer. They want to look at drainage.” The parking expansion should be complete by June, he said.
Step two: Sub-divide the 10 acres into large parcels with a road meandering through them.
Step three: Figure out what to do with it. Redwood Memorial Hospital is need of major renovation to meet new seismic requirements. Talk of building anew on the 10 acres ended with news that the shift would cost the hospital the critical access designation that increases Medicare reimbursement. Few in the Redwood Memorial community would want to see the hospital’s healthy bottom line injured. “We made $100,000 to $200,000 more last year than St. Joseph Hospital and it’s four times bigger,” Baird said.
And some see a new federally qualified center as a key to insuring that the hospital, and with its critical care facilities, stay relevant and profitable. Egan called existing physician offices “old” and “a little tired”; the RMH master plan calls for those offices to be moved to make way for renovation and expansion.
Becoming an FQHC is “where we get into a little controversy,” Egan said. “That will be driven by the physicians.”
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