Philadelphia-area hospitals are watching with anxiety as a new facility, built with prefab techniques, rises in Bucks County. The Philadelphia Inquirer compares it to building with Lego blocks. Built by Diversified Specialty Institutes of Nashville, TN, DSI Bucks County is the first new hospital in the area in more than a decade which is overbedded already, the Inquirer says. The new hospital will focus on breast care and will have 24 beds, six operating rooms, a cancer treatment center and an imaging center. Pennsylvania ditched its certificate-of-need requirements in 1997 , so only the market will determine whether the new facility is needed.
To get more background on the Philly hospital scene:
- read this Inquirer article