Carilion gets OK for mobile unit in Salem

Lewis-Gale Medical Center and Carilion Clinic have reached an agreement to allow Carilion to operate a mobile imaging unit in a parking lot less than a mile from Lewis-Gale in Salem. The written agreement comes after months of protests from Lewis-Gale administrators and affiliated physicians objecting to what they said would be an encroachment on Lewis-Gale’s patient population and physical location. The public objections stemmed from Carilion’s application seeking state permission to operate its existing mobile PET/CT device in the parking lot of Precision Nuclear of Virginia in order to access a specific drug…

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