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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Work Session: Potential Hospital Sites Meeting Date: March 12, 2008 Agenda Item Number: B Department: Planning & Development Staff Contact: Susan Muir www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-6077 ISSUE STATEMENT This work session is to provide an update to the City Council on discussions surrounding potential hospital sites in Eugene. Staff will inform the council of the discussions that have recently occurred with McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center. Additionally, staff will present council with the sites in Eugene that are under consideration by McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center. Staff will also ask for feedback and direction from the council on the potential hospital sites and next steps. BACKGROUND In January 2007, City Council readopted one of its 10 goals to facilitate the development of a full- service hospital in Eugene. On April 19, 2006, McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center filed applications for a proposal to locate their hospital at a site at the northwest corner of North Delta Highway and Ayres Road known as the Delta Ridge site. After many meetings in front of the Eugene Planning Commission, and prior to a hearing before the City Council, McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center decided the Delta Ridge site was not the right site for their hospital. Consequently, on January 14, 2008, McKenzie- Willamette Medical Center withdrew their land use applications for the Delta Ridge proposed site and began working on alternative sites in the region. City staff has met many times with the McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center leadership to partner on a potential site over the last 45 days, since the withdrawal of their application. The McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center leadership has many criteria they are using in their decision-making process, some of which include: proximity to existing medical facilities, customers and other needed resources, costs, site characteristics, timing, and complexity of the process to make the site ‘shovel ready’ for a hospital. McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center leadership is using these criteria in their decision-making process with the belief that once all of these criteria have been evaluated for each site, their ultimate hospital site will rise to the top for them. The City has discussed many potential sites with the hospital leadership. Timeliness is of significant importance to the hospital and it is critical that their decision-making process move forward quickly. The hospital is considering multiple sites in both Eugene and Springfield. Their list of potential locations in Eugene has been narrowed to three sites. Maps and details on the sites will be available at the March 12, 2008, meeting. L:\CMO\2008 Council Agendas\M080312\S080312B.doc