There’s about to be a hospital building boom in Clarksville. Last month, the Tennessee Health Facility Commission approved HCA to build TriStar Clarksville Hospital on the north side of town and for Ascension Saint Thomas to build a new medical campus in the Sango neighborhood.
Naturally, Tennova Clarksville, currently the only provider in town with a main hospital and a satellite location also in Sango, wanted to join in on the push to expand. However, through a public records request, NewsChannel 5 has learned that the Tennessee Health Facility Commission has denied Tennova’s application to expand their Sango campus. A reason wasn’t given in the denial letter, however Ascension Saint Thomas’s approved hospital would go right next door to the existing Tennova Sango campus.
Tennova’s application was not a typical request. Back in 2021, they applied and received approval for a satellite hospital located on Trenton Road in Clarksville, but the project never moved forward. Then this June, they asked the state if they could relocate their request to their Sango campus, after purchasing additional land near their current Satellite ER. That relocation request is what was denied. However, their current approval for the Trenton Road hospital could still move forward, if they wanted to pursue it…