The University Medical Center and Culpeper Regional Hospital have taken initial steps toward a new partnership slated to begin in January 2009.
"We've established a statement of shared values and principles and we have both signed [a] letter of intent about what we want to do," said R. Edward Howell, Medical Center vice president and CEO.
The partnership, according to B.J. Harrington, vice president of Culpeper Regional Hospital, seeks to support the hospital from an economic standpoint and to serve the growing needs of the Culpeper community.
"Culpeper [has a] growing population and they have growing and more complex needs," Harrington said. "We're trying to provide increasingly consistent care ... [and at the same time] to grow our business."
Howell expressed a similar sentiment, noting, "this is seen as an opportunity to forge that relationship with the hospital and to provide additional opportunities for the citizens of Culpeper and [to help] the Medical Center to pursue its mission."
Howell added that the two institutions have had a long-standing relationship during the last decade as copartners with the Culpeper Medical Associates.
The proposed partnership would give the University's Medical Center a greater role in the hospital, from both a leadership and economic standpoint, Howell noted.
"Essentially, [we transfer] capital to the hospital and we participate at the governing board level and develop an operation of clinical services in the community," Howell said. "The basic feedback I've received is that it makes sense, it's reasonable and it should be mutually beneficial."
Although both Culpeper Regional Hospital and the Medical Center have signed a letter of intent for the partnership, additional measures are required to make the partnership official.
"The Medical Center operating board and the U.Va. Board of Visitors must all approve any agreement," Harrington said, adding that the Culpeper Regional Hospital Board of Trustees and the commonwealth's attorney general must also give their consent to finalize the partnership.
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