A public hearing originally set in March for Encompass Health Corp.’s proposal to build a rehabilitation hospital in Branford has been rescheduled for Thursday.
A public hearing originally set in March for Encompass Health Corp.’s proposal to
build a rehabilitation hospital in Branford has been rescheduled for Thursday.
The Birmingham, Alabama-based company filed a certificate of need (CON) application on July 25 with the state Office of Health Strategy seeking approval to build a $69.5 million, 50-bed, for-profit rehab facility on property at 596, 612 & 616 East Main St.
OHS originally scheduled a hearing for public comment on the application for March 11, but the hearing was postponed. It is now scheduled for Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 1008/1011 at 55 Farmington Ave. in Hartford.
The technical portion of the hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m., while public comments will begin at 1 p.m.
The hearing will also be made available via Zoom.
596 and 612 East Main St. currently are residential properties, while 616 East Main St. is a commercial/industrial property. None of the properties is currently owned by Encompass Health.
A hospital or health organization is required to file a CON application for a variety of reasons, including when it wants to establish a new health care facility.
According to the 467-page CON application, Encompass Health, doing business as Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Branford LLC, would construct a one-story, 54,765-square-foot facility with 50 beds.
The facility would be Encompass Health’s second in Connecticut. In August
it opened a 40-bed, $39 million rehabilitation hospital in Danbury.
