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Resolution Supporting the Application of LewisGale Hospital-Pulaski
For a Certificate of Public Need
WHEREAS,. the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia supports efforts to
enhance and expand services necessary for the maintenance of the health of its
citizens; and
WHEREAS, LewisGale Hospital-Pulaski has applied to the Virginia Department of
Health for a Certificate of Public Need to offer Stereotactic Radiosurgery to patients at
the LewisGale Regional Cancer Center-Pulaski; and,
WHEREAS, making this new procedure available will greatly enhance and complement
current treatments and therapies available to patients at the Pulaski cancer treatment
facility;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski,
Virginia sitting in regular session this 17th day of December 2013, that the Town Council
hereby supports the application of LewisGale Hospital-Pulaski to offer the procedure
known as Stereotactic Radiosurgery and urges in the strongest possible terms for the
Virginia Department of Health to approve and issue a Certificate of Public Need to
authorize the LewisGale Regional Cancer Center-Pulaski to offer this method of
treatment to citizens.
This resolution is effective upon adoption and is hereby adopted by the duly recorded
vote of the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia this 17th day of December
2013 as follows:
Heather L. Steele -Aye
Gregory C. East -Aye
David L. Clark -Absent
H.M. Kidd -Aye
Joseph K. Goodman -Aye
James A. Radcliffe -Aye
THE TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA
BY: ''
. Worre ,Mayor
ATTEST:
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Patricia Cruise, Clerk of Council