Despite formal opposition from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Dimensions’ Prince George’s Hospital Center officials, an Annapolis-based hospital appears on track to receive state approval to build a new heart surgery program.
A reviewer for the project recommended that Maryland regulators approve Anne Arundel Medical Center, which is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Health System, for its proposed cardiac surgery program. In the Dec. 30 report, the reviewer, Dr. Craig Tanio, also recommended regulators deny the University of Maryland Medical System-affiliated Baltimore Washington Medical Center an application to create a similar program.
AAMC has been in competition with BWMC for state approval for a proposed heart surgery program since 2015.
Officials have projected AAMC’s cardiac surgery program will perform 241 cases in its first year of operation during fiscal 2017, and will have 337 and 387 cases in its second and third years of operation, respectively. It is projecting more than 90 percent of that patient volume will come from its service areas of Anne Arundel County, four Eastern Shore counties and portions of northern Calvert County and eastern Prince George’s County.
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