At two public meetings scheduled for noon and 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 5 in the Eugene City Council Chamber, the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) will take comment on McKenzie-Willamette's application for certificate of need approval to build a replacement hospital in Eugene. Please attend and support our application.

McKenzie-Willamette is buying part of RiverRidge Golf Complex on north Delta Highway to build a 148-bed hospital with expansion space for the addition of another 50 beds over the next decade.  This state-of-the-art hospital will include a full service 24-hour Level III Trauma Center Emergency Department, as well as cardiac, medical/surgical, women’s and children’s, diagnostic, and rehabilitation services. Certificate of Need laws are intended to constrain the cost of healthcare by ensuring there is a need for proposed facilities, that they maintain or improve affordable access to healthcare services, and that they do not adversely affect competition between healthcare providers.

Please support McKenzie-Willamette's plan to ensure there is hospital competition in Lane County. If you cannot attend the DHS public meetings, you can send a letter of support to:

Certificate of Need Program

Jana Fussell, Coordinator

Oregon Public Health Services

800 N.E. Oregon Street, Suite 930

Portland, Oregon  97232

City of Eugene Schedules Hearing on Delta Ridge Land Use Applications

We've also submitted land use applications to the City of Eugene.  We're asking for amendments to the Metro Area General Plan and the neighborhood refinement plan, and for a zone change.  The Eugene Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing on our applications for Tuesday, July 18, at 6 p.m. in the Eugene City Council Chamber. Please attend and support our requests.

In order to build at the site we now call Delta Ridge, we must document the impact of additional hospital traffic in the new location and recommend ways to mitigate the impact. We completed the required traffic impact analysis and learned we would add an additional 4% to the overall volume of trips on the system in north Eugene. Staff from City of Eugene, Lane County, and Oregon Department of Transportation directed the scope and methodology of the analysis. McKenzie-Willamette will fully fund improvement projects designed to make the adjacent roads, intersections and interchanges work better than they have in a decade. 

Can't attend the July 18 City of Eugene Planning Commission hearing? You can send a letter of support to:

City of Eugene Planning Division

Alissa Hansen, Senior Planner

99 W. 10th Avenue

Eugene, Oregon 97401. 

Email: alissa.h.hansen@ci.eugene.or.us

 

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