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)U ~, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1987 Ms. Donna H. Smith, of Smith/Packett Med-Com of Roanoke, Virginia, appeared before Council and sought Council's formal support of her firm's application being filed for a Certificate of Need from the Virginia Department of Health to permit the construction and operation of a 120-bed nursing home facility, proposed for a site on Commonwealth Boulevard across from Martinsville High School. Mr. Philip G. Gardner, Attorney at Law and counsel to Dorn-Will Corporation, a firm which has received an allocation of 96 beds for a proposed 120-bed nursing home facility off East Church Street near the City's east corporate limits as well as an allocation of 180 beds for Commonwealth Health Care which Dorn-Will Corporation recently agreed to take over and operate, appeared before Council not in opposition to the Smith/Packet proposal but merely to inform Council, on behalf of his client, that--according to information available to him--only fifty-six (56) beds will be available each year, through 1993, for additional nursing home patients in this area and, then, only for expansion of present facilities.....none for new nursing homes. Consequently, Mr. Gardner suggested that there is no need for Council to endorse the Smith/ Packett proposal. Ms. Smith, howe~er, reported that there will be a local un-met need for 277 beds by the year 1993. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council "tabled" Ms. Smith's request (an action with which Ms. Smith indicated she is agreeable, pending additional information she proposes to present). Council also asked City Manager Brown to report such additional information and/or other pertinent data to Council at Council's forthcoming November 24th meeting. 'I.