Supporters of a proposed Clarksburg hospital rallied for their cause Monday, while about a mile away, the group behind a competing Germantown hospital proposal released an economic impact report supporting its project.
The two hospital systems — Adventist HealthCare System, which seeks to build the Clarksburg Community Hospital and Holy Cross Hospital, which wants to build a facility in Germantown — are vying for approval from the state, but only one can win.
“There are serious questions if a hospital is located about a mile from there about the long-term viability of the emergency center in Germantown,” Jepson said. “We think it makes sense to add services incrementally rather than disrupt or destroy existing services.”
Adventist would build its hospital on a 60-acre parcel of land in Clarksburg off Interstate 270, serving a growing region that includes Germantown, Damascus and Urbana, just over the Frederick County border. The property would include an 86-bed hospital, a skilled nursing-care center, physician offices and an outpatient facility.
The state is expected to make its decision in early fall, said Pamela Barclay, director of the Maryland Health Care Commission’s Center for Hospital Services.
