Chesapeake Regional hopes to move one of operating rooms from the Surgery Center of Chesapeake (Va.), which is an affiliate of the medical center, to an outpatient surgery center. The outpatient facility will be located in a building in Virginia Beach, Va., to be constructed and owned by Urology of Virginia, a urology practice based in Virginia Beach. Chesapeake Regional would pay $8.2 million for a five-year lease and to convert the second floor of the building into an ambulatory surgery center that will provide treatments in urology, gynecology and gastroenterology. The proposed site for the building, which would include the ASC and the OR, is within 2.5 miles of Sentara Leigh.
Sentara Leigh hopes to spend $700,000 to convert and equip an 11th operating room in the hospital.
Virginia Department of Health officials have indicated that they’ll approve only one of the two proposals. Chesapeake Regional leaders said that the outpatient facility would be more efficient than a hospital, and procedures would be performed at lower costs since it will be focused on specialized elective surgeries. Sentara officials said that the proposed facility would take away 80 percent of cases from Sentara facilities.
The state health commissioner is expected to decide on the applications in mid-October, according to the report.
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