Health care

The story of the year in local healthcare was HCA’s months-long, ultimately unsuccessful bid to secure state approval needed to open a hospital it proposed for a site in Hanover County.

The health insurance giant has a third CenterWell clinic in the works on Brook Road that’s expected to open next year.

The dental practice is taking over a space in John Rolfe Commons that was most recently home to Autentico’s Kitchen and before that Hayashi Sushi & Grill.

The Mechanicsville retirement community is winding down the in-home care subsidiary it acquired nearly four years ago and shedding dozens of jobs as a result.

The decision gives Bon Secours the state’s blessing to set up an ER on North Lakeridge Parkway and a leg up in the county on its main competitor.

The health system continues to build out its local footprint of urgent care centers, this time with an eye on South Richmond.

HCA Healthcare’s effort to build its first hospital in Hanover County has been derailed by the state health department. State Health Commissioner Karen Shelton last week denied HCA’s application that sought regulatory approval of a proposed 60-bed, $233.6 million acute-care hospital on Sliding Hill Road off of I-95. Shelton determined the proposed facility was unnecessary… Read more »

The health systems each want to build new centers within a few miles of each other in eastern Hanover outside of the Town of Ashland, while HCA also is plotting a new hospital in the same area.