The planned MCG Medical Associates Ambulatory Center will include three operating rooms, two procedure rooms, an imaging center and a 45-room exam clinic, according to the report.
Reasons for the opposition of the two hospitals were not provided by the report, but debate has been ongoing since April 2008, when MCG obtained a certificate of need for the ASC. The group was able to demonstrate its ability to provide services to poor and low-income patients in Columbia County was reason enough to grant a CON.
The hospitals have 10 days to ask the Court of Appeals to reconsider or ask the Georgia Supreme Court for permission to appeal, according to the report.
Read the Chronicle’s report about the proposed MCG Medical Associates Ambulatory Center.
