Quincy Medical Group Receives Designation on Hospital

The Illi­nois Health Facil­i­ties and Ser­vices Review Board (HFS­RB) reviewed Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s (QMG) Cer­tifi­cate of Need appli­ca­tion for a small-for­mat hos­pi­tal, QMG Hos­pi­tal, at their board meet­ing today. The HFS­RB issued an Intent to Deny, a des­ig­na­tion that is not uncom­mon for pro­posed projects and one that allows QMG to sub­mit addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion for the board’s consideration.

QMG CEO Car­ol Brock­miller said, ​“We appre­ci­at­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to present our pro­posed project today. Two mem­bers of the CON Board called the QMG Hos­pi­tal project a ​‘breath of fresh air’ and we couldn’t agree more. Lim­it­ed health­care options have result­ed in Quin­cy-area res­i­dents pay­ing dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly high rates for health­care. We remain stead­fast in our com­mit­ment to this project and our com­mit­ment to dri­ve down health­care costs in our com­mu­ni­ty and make the very best in patient care acces­si­ble to all. We respect the HFSRB’s feed­back on our project and look for­ward to pro­vid­ing addi­tion­al information.”

Upon receipt of QMG’s addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion, the HFS­RB staff will review and sub­mit its find­ings to the HFS­RB and issue a sup­ple­men­tal report. HFS­RB rules requires six votes for project approval and six board mem­bers con­sti­tute a quo­rum. The Board allows for 11 mem­bers. Six of the sev­en cur­rent board mem­bers were present for the QMG Hos­pi­tal project.

QMG’s pro­posed small-for­mat hos­pi­tal would fea­ture 25 med-surg beds; 3 labor, deliv­ery, recov­ery and post­par­tum or LDRP rooms, an emer­gency depart­ment with 10 bays; a C‑section suite; 3 oper­at­ing rooms; and 1 pro­ce­dure room. The pro­pos­al also includes a post-anes­the­sia care unit, lab­o­ra­to­ry, phar­ma­cy, and imag­ing depart­ment. Three of the med­ical-sur­gi­cal beds would be equipped to serve as neg­a­tive pres­sure rooms, or iso­la­tion rooms, to aid in infec­tious dis­ease outbreaks.

The pro­posed QMG Hos­pi­tal will be locat­ed on the cam­pus of the Quin­cy Town Cen­ter. The Quin­cy Town Cen­ter is already home to the QMG Surgery Cen­ter and Can­cer Institute.

Dr. Todd Pet­ty, QMG Sur­geon and Board Chair said ​“We are hum­bled by the hun­dreds of patients who have told the cer­tifi­cate of need board they want and need this hos­pi­tal. We are con­fi­dent that with addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion, the HFS­RB will approve the project.” The com­mu­ni­ty is over­whelm­ing­ly sup­port­ive and under­stands that we pay more for hos­pi­tal-based care.”