NSU’s plan to build a hospital on campus has met with opposition from two hospitals systems.
On Jan. 8, the Memorial Healthcare System and Cleveland Clinic Florida contested the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s preliminary approval to build a hospital on NSU’s main campus.
In December, AHCA’s approved the Hospital Corporation of America East Florida’s Certificate of Need application to relocate 200 of Plantation General Hospital’s beds to NSU.
An administrative judge will now make the final ruling on the decision.
President George Hanbury said, “If the administrative law judge reverses the Agency for Health Care Administration’s approval, HCA East Florida has committed to keep filing Certificate of Need applications with the state until they recognize that this hospital is essential for the health care, for the common good as well as evolving into a teaching and research hospital integrated into a doctoral research university.”
Hanbury also said the hospital could evolve into a destination research hospital for Florida, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
To learn more about NSU’s plans for the hospital, visit nova.edu/president/initiatives.html.
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