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days. This was a rather high figure; we've never even come
close to that.
But with this figure they projected by 1985, correction,
this was amended after the certificate of need application
to 30,500 patient days. This is a decrease of 2,500. The
initial proposal using the 33,000 stated in 1985 the hospital
would have a surplus of $550,000. When they decreased this
by 2500 using the figures of what the hospital cost per
patient day for 1985 is, this would realize the result
in a loss of revenue to the hospital of $925,000, So instead
of a surplus of $550,000, this should show then a surplus of
$306,000. The original plans call for no beds, no additional
beds, and no new services.
The contingency fee for the new equipment we feel
is inadequate as a hospital is not a hospital because
there's a bed to lie in but because it has equipment, and
it has diagnostic services to diagnose and treat illness.
Hospitals by the very nature are 1007. service oriented.
They manufacture no product, To best serve, they must be
located in a readily accessible area; and to maintain
viability and growth, they must be located in a growing area.
The population of Mooresville is not increasing, it is
decreasing as proven by the 1980 census.
Mooresville has attracted practically no new industry
and has been losing jobs and industry at an alarming rate.
The population growth pattern is to the south and to the
west. The physicans feel that a new structure, located on