HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC-05-03-82 St. Vincent Hosp.RESOLUTION 5-3-82-1
WHEREAS increased interest has been shown by private and not-for-profit
institutions to construct and operate hospital or satellite hospital facilities
in the Carmel-Clay area, and
WHEREAS, at least two out-of-state corporations, a Marion County not-for-profit
hospital corporation and at least one in-state private concern have all
expressed interest in such facilities, and
WHEREAS, the Carmel-Clay community with a population of over 32,000 people has
been without local hospital facilities, and the need for such an all-purpose
medical facility in the community of such size is obvious, and
WHEREAS, the chief administrator of the State Board of Health has indicated
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facility operated by St. Vincent's Hospital Corp. (which may not be an all-
purpose facility), and
WHEREAS there has been no coordinated effort at either the local or state level
to accept presentations from all those interests desirous of constructing a
hospital in Carmel-Clay, and provide .hearings by which local citizens could
listen to such presentations and add their own input into such decision-making
by the State Board of Health,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Carmel,
Indiana, that said Council requests the Head of the State Board of Health
refrain from granting permission to St. Vincent's for a satellite hospital
facility pending a hearing process conducted by the State Board of Health in
which other interests have had the opportunity to make presentations and
citizens of Carmel-Clay have had the opportunity to hear these presentations
and offer their own input prior to a final decision being made by the Head
of the State Board of Health.
This resolution passed by a unanimous vote of the Council members present
at the regular meeting of the Common Council held on May 3, 1982.
ATTEST:
-Dorothy J. FF~n~ck, Clerk-Treasurer