The story of the year in local healthcare was HCA’s months-long, ultimately unsuccessful bid to secure state approval needed to open a hospital it proposed for a site in Hanover County.
The new facility comes as the nonprofit continues to plan for a larger, regional family center on the scale of what it envisioned for the nixed VCU Health-anchored redevelopment of the nearby Public Safety Building property.
In the wake of multiple mass shootings across the country in recent weeks, about 75 people gathered at Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto on Sunday afternoon with one collective plea: End gun violence.