This morning, the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Working Group on Certificate of Public Need (COPN) Reform endorsed nine principles, including the need for substantial reform to the COPN system ...

Few legislative issues during the 2016 General Assembly have garnered more attention in the health care community than the efforts to reform Virginia’s Certificate of Public Need (“COPN”) process.

The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, the York County Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Virginia Beach are the latest entities to formalize their support for reforming Virginia’s effective ...

IN THE famous fable, “The Scorpion and the Frog,” the scorpion stings frog mid-stream and both die. On July 25, a meeting convened by Gov. Ralph Northam considered changes to Virginia’s Certificate of ...

It’s a classic regulation versus market debate, and the debate over Virginia’s Certificate of Public Need law, which requires state health department approval of new hospital and clinic facilities, is ...

Considering the vast uncertainty hovering over the future of health care at the federal level, Virginia’s hospitals are asking the state’s lawmakers to take a “do no harm” stance on state health ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Advocates say hospitals and nursing homes have a new tool that could help them more successfully treat patients with the COVID-19 virus after Gov. Ralph Northam issued an executive ...