Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The split decision grants WellStar its rezoning, but denies the permit to build a hospice or hospital.
Editor's note: the story has been updated with reaction from WellStar and Northside Hospital. The Holly Springs City Council rendered a split decision on two requests from Marietta-based WellStar Health System. The voted to approve a request from the company to rezone 62 acres at the southwest corner of Sixes Road at Interstate 575 from general commercial and mixed use to entirely general commercial. However, it voted to deny granting a conditional use permit to the company to build the hospital or personal care home. The company would still be allowed to build the health park, which would include a medical office building as it's allowed under general commercial uses. Both votes were tallied as 4-0-1, with council member Karen Barnett …
Monday, March 18, 2013
The City Council is scheduled to consider approval or denial of a request by WellStar to obtain a permit to allow the company to build a health park and hospital.
A proposed development that's become a point of contention between Cherokee County and Holly Springs will come up for a vote tonight. The Holly Springs City Council will meet tonight and will consider WellStar Health System's requested the city rezone 62 acres at the southwest corner of Sixes Road at Interstate 575 from general commercial and mixed use to entirely general commercial. WellStar has also requested to obtain a conditional use permit to operate an institution similar to a hospital and a hospice facility or personal care home. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Holly Springs Municipal Court chambers. If approved, WellStar would like to build the health park first and follow up with a hospital within the next seven to 10 …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Marietta-based health care provider has penned a letter responding to some of the concerns laid out last week by the Cherokee County Commission.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Mayor Tim Downing is critical of the county's letter to the city that spells out its concerns about WellStar's proposed development.
Friday, March 15, 2013
The Marietta-based health care provider has penned a letter responding to some of the concerns laid out last week by the Cherokee County Commission.
In what's becoming a war of words, WellStar Health System has written its own letter responding to concerns outlined by the Cherokee County Commission in the company's request to build a health park and hospital on Sixes Road at Interstate 575. WellStar is taking issues with County Chairman Buzz Ahrens who, on behalf of the commission, stated concerns about the development's impact on surrounding infrastructure and the impact of building a tax exempt hospital would have on the county's tax digest. WellStar's letter, penned by Marietta attorney Richard Calhoun, points out that Holly Springs records don't indicate the county expressed concerns about a 2005 rezoning of the property to general commercial to accommodate a 422,000 square foot …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Mayor Tim Downing is critical of the county's letter to the city that spells out its concerns about WellStar's proposed development.
Holly Springs Mayor Tim Downing is not mincing words in his response to a letter written by Cherokee County Commission Chairman Buzz Ahrens raising concerns about WellStar Health System's request to rezone property to build a health park and hospital on Sixes Road at Interstate 575. Reached on Monday, Downing took issue with the county's concerns about the development's impact on surrounding infrastructure and on the impact of building a tax exempt hospital would have on the county's tax digest. Downing said when Northside Hospital-Cherokee acquired property between Georgia Highways 20 and 140 to build their replacement hospital, the company did not have the appropriate infrastructure in place. "There was sufficient amount of time" to put…
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The Cherokee County Commission has drafted a letter to express reservations about WellStar Health System's proposal to build a health park and hospital in Holly Springs.
The Cherokee County Commission is weighing in on a Marietta-based health company's proposal to build a health park and hospital in Holly Springs. Cherokee County Chairman Buzz Ahrens, on behalf of the commissioners, has drafted a letter outlining its concerns about a request from WellStar for the city to rezone 62 acres at the southwest corner of Sixes Road at Interstate 575 from general commercial and mixed use to entirely general commercial. WellStar has also requested to obtain a conditional use permit to operate an institution similar to a hospital and a hospice facility or personal care home. If approved, WellStar would like to build the health park first and follow up with a hospital within the next seven to 10 years. The hospice …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Homeowners' associations along the Sixes Road corridor will hold a meeting for residents to learn more about WellStar's plans to possibly build a facility in Holly Springs.
While WellStar Health System has decided not to proceed with obtaining a green light from the state for a free-standing emergency department in Holly Springs, that isn't stopping residents from organizing to inform their neighbors about the company's plans. A meeting has been set for 6:30 p.m. Monday at Liberty Elementary School for residents who live in BridgeMill and along Sixes Road to learn about what WellStar would like to do with roughly 62 acres on the southwest corner of Sixes Road and I-575. Jay Patouillet, president of the BridgeMill Community Association, said the homeowners association of BridgeMill and The Falls of Cherokee decided to organize a meeting to inform residents about WellStar's plans due to the proximity of the …
Saturday, February 16, 2013
The company is holding off on a proposal to build a stand alone emergency department in the city limits.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The company is holding off on a proposal to build a stand alone emergency department in the city limits.
WellStar Health System has put off plans to expand into Holly Springs. The company is not pursuing a proposal to build a free-standing emergency department on 62 acres on the southwest corner of Sixes Road and I-575. WellStar last month filed a letter of intent with Georgia Department of Community Health to build the proposed $21 million off-site emergency center, but did not proceed with filing a Certificate of Need review. The CON has to be filed 30 days after a letter of intent is filed with the department. WellStar Spokesperson Keith Bowermaster said there's "no precedent" in Georgia for a free-standing emergency department to get the CON stamp of approval. "We are very interested in this clinical model, but [we] elected to not file …
