Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center plans to file an amended plan for a 42-bed bed hospital in Murfreesboro, Tenn., according to the Daily News Journal.<\/p>\n
If approved by state regulators, the medical center's $144.3 million facility would be near an eight-bed hospital planned by Nashville-based Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford.<\/p>\n
The move comes about a year after Vanderbilt's proposal for a 48-bed hospital was rejected by state officials in favor of the eight-bed Ascension microhospital.<\/p>\n
If the amended plan is approved, the facility would be called Vanderbilt Rutherford Hospital and would house an emergency room, intensive care unit, obstetrics, surgeries and cardiac catheterization services.<\/p>\n
\"We did not undertake the decision to submit a new application for Vanderbilt Rutherford Hospital lightly,\" said C. Wright Pinson, MD, deputy CEO and chief health system officer for the medical center.<\/p>\n
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