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(3),
Hospitals are 100% service oriented, they produce no product.
To best serve they must be located in a readily accessable area,
and to remain viable and growing, located in an area of growing
population.
The population of Mooresville is not increasing, it is decreasing
as proven by the 1980 census.
Mooresville has attracted practically no new industry, but has been
loosing jobs and industry at an alarming rate. The population
growth pattern is to the West and South.
The physicians feel a new structure located on the I-77 corridor
is the best solution. This could be either county owned or privately
owned. Why do we say this? Lowrance's medical staff has not
increased in the past eight years. With a new structure just
north of the Mecklenburg line, six new primary care physicians would
more than likely be added to the staff. These six new physicians
presently practicing in Davidson and Huntersville would double our
present staff -of primary care physicians and provide a strong
referral base necessary for specialists. What we don't need is
escalation of the current situation of weekly clinics in Mooresville
by out-of-town specialists who transfer patients to other hospitals
for'care further decreasing this hospitals utilization.
At the present cost of new hospital construction of $143,000 per
hospital bed the present proposal would pay for a new 74 bed hospital.