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Source: Nashville Business Journal
Author: Nikki Ross
Date: July 18, 2024
HCA Healthcare Inc.’s TriStar Division is applying to build another freestanding emergency room.
TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center announced Wednesday that it will apply for a certificate of need to build a freestanding emergency room in White House, which is about 20 miles north of Nashville.
“We are proud to be the hospital of choice for the residents of White House and surrounding communities, and we look forward to bringing our care closer to home,” Justin Coury, CEO of TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center, said in the release. “This new freestanding emergency room will ensure that residents can access high-quality emergency care much faster which can save lives."
The hospital system is hoping to use the freestanding ER to meet the needs of White House’s growing population. Since 2000, the city has more than doubled its residents, from 7,200 to 15,000 in 2023, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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.
TriStar Hendersonville is one of two hospitals in HCA’s network that are being used as an innovation hub hospital. Essentially, the hospital system’s Department of Care Transformation and Innovation division takes technology to this hospital to be tested and hospital staff gives feedback on what is and isn’t working.
The proposed freestanding ER would have 11 treatment and examination rooms, a trauma room, imaging department, nursing station and support space, according to the release. The ER will be able to do all the things a hospital-based ER can do, like treat heart attacks, strokes, broken bones and other emergencies.
This isn't the first expansion HCA has announced this year. In June, the hospital system was approved to build a $250 million, full-service hospital in Spring Hill. Last week, HCA purchased a $7.5 million, 1.85 acre site at 800 Dickerson Pike.