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- May 9, 2024
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City Planning Commission Recommends Approval of Hospital Expansion Plan

Concerns about Kid’s Station remain. MWHC touts graduate education program as solution to region’s crushing shortage of physicians. The Fredericksburg Planning Commission voted 6-to-1 on Wednesday evening to recommend approval of Mary Washington Healthcare’s rezoning request. The request will next be subject to another public hearing before City Council, which will have final say into […]

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- April 25, 2024
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Snowden Plans Face Scrutiny

Proposed new general development plan for portion of Mary Washington Hospital campus, from the staff report given to the Fredericksburg Planning Commission on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

Lydia Fallon, 5, had just one question for Mary Washington Healthcare during Wednesday’s public hearing on the hospital system’s recent expansion plans. “What about all the noise and dust at naptime?” she asked members of the Planning Commission. “Tell [MWHC] to wait. Thank you for hearing me.” Lydia attends Kids’ Station, the KinderCare-operated daycare center and […]

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- April 22, 2024
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Public Hearing on Mary Washington Healthcare’s Expansion Plan Scheduled

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Mary Washington Healthcare’s plans to build a new medical clinic where Kids’ Station daycare and preschool is now will be subject to a public hearing before the Fredericksburg Planning Commission on Wednesday. The hospital system is requesting a rezoning to replace the 1993 general development plan and permit the demolishment of Kids’ Station and the […]

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- March 6, 2024
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Mary Washington Healthcare Plans to Build Conference Center and New Medical Clinic, Expand Snowden House

Mary Washington Healthcare is seeking approval to build a conference center and new medical clinic and construct an addition to Snowden House, a historic structure on the hospital campus that is used for “meetings, receptions, and fundraising activities,” according to the MWHC website. The new 24,500-square-foot two-story medical clinic will replace the building that currently […]

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