HCA Healthcare's TriStar Division gets approval for Spring Hill hospital
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Source: Nashville Business Journal
Author: Nikki Ross
Date: June 27, 2024
HCA Healthcare’s TriStar Division has the green light to build another hospital.
TriStar Health’s certificate of need to build a $250 million, full-service hospital in Spring Hill was approved by the Tennessee Health Facilities Commission Wednesday in a 6-2 vote, according to a press release.
The 68-bed, acute care hospital will be built on the same site as the existing TriStar Spring Hill emergency room. The hospital will have an intensive care unit, labor and deliver unit, neonatal intensive care unit, four operating rooms, cardiac catheterization services and imaging services including MRI.
It will be the first hospital in the community, according to the hospital operator. TriStar was previously approved to build a hospital in Spring Hill, but the decision was ultimately overturned. The company instead built the existing freestanding ER.
“This decision brings us one step closer to fulfilling a promise we made to the Spring Hill community eighteen years ago," said Mitch Edgeworth, president of HCA Healthcare TriStar Division, in the release.
HCA (NYSE: HCA) is Nashville’s largest publicly traded company by revenue, generating $64.9 billion in 2023, according to Business Journal research. The hospital system operates 186 hospitals and 2,400 ambulatory sites of care across 20 states and the United Kingdom.
HCA’s TriStar Division oversees 17 hospitals, 89 physician offices and 18 urgent care centers in Tennessee and Kentucky, according to its website.
Over the past few months, TriStar has hosted community meetings and led conversations to learn what health care services the community wants and needs, according to the release. More than 1,100 people wrote letters of support for the hospital, including Spring Hill elected officials.
Plans for the hospital, which sits just over the Maury County line, were announced in April when TriStar filed an application for the certificate of need.
Certificate of need is a permit for the establishment or modification of a health care institution, facility or service at a designated location, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.
Maury Regional Health CEO Martin Chaney the next day released a statement opposing plans for the hospital, saying it would drive up the cost of health care and create and even greater shortage of physicians, nurses and other clinical staff.
Details on construction of the new hospital will be revealed in the coming months, according to the release.