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 ...

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 a recent profile of candidates for state delegate in the Gazette, the residents of the 96th district got a preview of major issues surrounding the upcoming campaign. As a doctor who has spent my ...

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 ...

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 ...

The House of Delegates on Monday backed two bills to revamp or dismantle the certificate of public need program, the state’s lengthy application and approval process for big-ticket health care ...