This summer, a week after USA Health announced its plans to build a medical complex with an outpatient surgery center in Fairhope, Ala., Infirmary Health President and CEO Mark Nix wrote a letter of opposition to the state.
In it, he said USA Health’s surgery center would have a “detrimental impact” on the finances of Thomas Hospital, an Infirmary-owned facility four miles from the proposed site, and that the county has sufficient access to outpatient surgery.
“I don’t think it’s going to have a detrimental effect. I think it’s going to be complementary,” USA Health CEO Owen Bailey said in an interview with WPMI.
A judge is expected to review the dispute during a two-week administrative hearing scheduled to begin in mid-October.
If USA Health doesn’t receive a certificate of need for its surgery center — which is integral to the project, according to Mr. Bailey — it plans to move forward with the medical complex, offering primary and specialty care there.
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