![]() ![]() Suhail added the company also may expand the property to add additions, with the company exploring medical education and creating a residency program for a rural-track, most likely for a family medicine or psychological health focus. Hylak-Reinholtz estimates it will be a two-year process before Foresight can get all of the complete operations it hopes to accomplish in the county, “but we’ll want to bring the most critically needed services first.”įor services the hospital will not be able to handle, Foresight will draft transfer agreements with nearby facilities that can handle the type of care necessary for patients. “It will also be contingent upon the relationships we make with local physicians and other physicians which we can relocate to this community,” he said. “We’ll see what makes sense at that time, with the ultimate goal phasing up to probably about 20 staffed critical-access beds,” he said.įoresight will also look at introducing ambulatory infusion services, outpatient surgery, and the different categories of services that make sense to the area like orthopedic or gastro. In the longer term under phase two, Hylak-Reinholtz said Foresight plans to bring dialysis back to the community and expand the critical-access beds from five to 10 beds. So, we’re looking to do some psychiatric care,” he said. “Then we would move onto phase 1b because we’re looking to file a certificate of public need, a COPN application, to bring on some psychiatric services here at the hospital. Hylak-Reinholtz said the kitchen, labs, imaging, and all the support services needed for that department also are included in the first phase “We would be opening the emergency department and looking to staff five critical access beds, which we would phase up throughout the calendar year in 2023,” he said. You have to make sure that everything is run adequately, everything is up to regulatory factors, you have accreditation, you have a lot of providers that will be coming in from other states that will be joining us, you have to make sure your transfer agreements are in the proper place.”Ĭhief Operating Officer (COO) and General Counsel Joseph Hylak-Reinholtz said Foresight’s plan and timeline includes four phases with phase one being the emergency department. ![]() “At the end of the day, it’s not just opening the doors. “It was very important to us to take our time,” Suhail said. The town halls are expected to start in August. Suhail said Foresight representatives also plan to hold town hall meetings to talk with residents and officials that would be supporting the company to get more feedback and input.įoresight also hopes to meet with local fire and rescue departments, the local sheriff’s office, and Emergency Management Services (EMS) to get a greater understanding of the local challenges of providing healthcare in the community. ![]() “We came up with a plan and an agenda where we can actually come on a bi-monthly basis and engage with the community and engage with the officials,” he said. Suhail said it is also important that Foresight is able to engage with the community. So, early first quarter of 2023,” he said. “Unfortunately, we are going to have to go into January, and possibly end of January. ![]() However, after hiring new consultants and discussing the timelines about the regulatory licensures and required documentations, the expected opening is 2023. Sameer Suhail, president and CEO of Foresight Health, said he wanted to have the Emergency Department open and operational by the end of 2022. The Foresight Hospital and Health System in Stuart, (formerly Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County) is now on track to open the emergency department in the first quarter of 2023. Suhail is pictured in the center, flanked by Chief Operating Officer (COO)/General Counsel Joseph Hylak-Reinholtz (right) and Sean Adkins, director of Patrick County Economic Development. Sameer Suhail, president and CEO of Foresight Health recently visited the facility Stuart to meet with local officials. ![]()
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