Virginia Department of Health
State Board of Health
Regulations for the Licensure of Hospitals in Virginia
[12 VAC 5 ‑ 410]
Public Petition for Rulemaking: Request to Amend Regulations for Licensure of Hospitals
CLOSED Opened on 5/6/2013 and Ended on 5/26/2013
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| Comment Title | Commenter | |
|---|---|---|
| Hard decisions | Molly Vick | 5/26/13 11:55 pm |
| TRAP | Niels Asmussen | 5/26/13 11:54 pm |
| No selective application of the law | Elizabeth Ferris | 5/26/13 11:53 pm |
| It is unethical to selectively apply the law for ideological reasons | Sheena Mayfield | 5/26/13 11:52 pm |
| No targeted regulation of abortion providers! | Cherie Seise | 5/26/13 11:47 pm |
| Licensing of Family Planning and Women's Health Medical Clinics | B. Walsh | 5/26/13 11:46 pm |
| No inconsistent application of the law | Kimberly Rolla, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project | 5/26/13 11:46 pm |
| You cannot selectively enforce regulations | Lynn Novak | 5/26/13 11:43 pm |
| Licensing of Family Planning and Women's Health Medical Clinics | B. Walsh | 5/26/13 11:29 pm |
| TRAP | Sarah Okolita, MSW | 5/26/13 11:09 pm |
| TRAP | Luanne J. Smith | 5/26/13 11:09 pm |
| Selective Application of the Law. | Shawn Richardson | 5/26/13 10:56 pm |
| Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (Women's Health Clinics) | Donna Joyce | 5/26/13 10:30 pm |
| Oppose T.R.A.P. | Tristan Brennis | 5/26/13 9:08 pm |
| Oppose TRAP | Reed Humphrey | 5/26/13 8:45 pm |
| Oppose TRAP | Kristen Bentley | 5/26/13 8:44 pm |
| Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and his Senior Assistant have advised VDH and the Board of Health th | Kristen Bentley | 5/26/13 8:41 pm |
| Political regulations | Will Fitzhugh | 5/26/13 3:41 pm |
| Blatant Disregard for Separation of Church & State | Kathy Carle | 5/26/13 10:52 am |
| Comment on TRAP | Dustin King | 5/26/13 10:37 am |
| Selective application of the law is unacceptable | Kate Noon, LCSW | 5/26/13 1:41 am |
| TRAP | Victoria Bragunier, Richmond NOW | 5/25/13 10:48 pm |
| Let's be Honest. | Julia Richardson | 5/25/13 4:27 pm |
| I Oppose TRAP | Carol Kyber | 5/25/13 4:00 pm |
| I oppose TRAP | Jennifer Winship | 5/25/13 2:23 pm |
| TRAP | Travis R University Health Sciences Center | 5/25/13 1:45 pm |
| Women's safty | Cheri Britt | 5/25/13 1:26 pm |
| Help, My Dentist's Office Does not Have an Awning! | Carolyn C. Mcneal, private citizen | 5/25/13 12:15 pm |
| Either ALL or NONE of Virginia's hospitals have to meet these standards. | Janet Lundy, citizen, voter | 5/24/13 10:19 pm |
| Women's Health Care Providers | Henry Bochner | 5/24/13 5:58 pm |
| Unfair & Unjust | Bob Lytle | 5/24/13 4:27 pm |
| VA Government is Trampling Women! | Keith Deringer | 5/24/13 2:21 pm |
| TRAP | Jamshid Bakhtiari | 5/24/13 12:03 pm |
| Fair application of facility design standards | James P. Armstrong | 5/24/13 10:59 am |
| TRAP must apply to all or not at all | Michela Worthington-Adams | 5/24/13 8:45 am |
| TRAP | Robyn Bentley | 5/24/13 7:14 am |
| TRAP violates equal protection... | Mary E Tyler | 5/23/13 11:36 pm |
| Women's Safety Comes First! | Louantha Kerr | 5/23/13 10:54 pm |
| Request to Amend Regulations for Licensure of Hospitals | Rhonda Hening Davis | 5/23/13 9:05 pm |
| Grandfathering of Health Facilities | Elaine Shepherd | 5/23/13 8:21 pm |
| Oppose TRAP | Michelle Blessing | 5/23/13 7:47 pm |
| Different standard | John Ash | 5/23/13 5:50 pm |
| Women's health | Diana Thompson Vincelli | 5/23/13 5:20 pm |
| I oppose TRAP | Barbara, citizen of VA | 5/23/13 5:17 pm |
| TRAP | Jo Justis | 5/23/13 4:34 pm |
| VDH is being coerced into enforcing invalid VAC! | Keith Deringer | 5/23/13 3:50 pm |
| Against TRAP | Stephanie Suwak | 5/23/13 3:26 pm |
| TRAP | Beth Witt | 5/23/13 3:11 pm |
| Appalled yet not surprised | Dory Klein | 5/23/13 3:09 pm |
| TRAP | Susan Singer | 5/23/13 2:34 pm |
| TRAP | Melissa Yeager, CD (toLabor) | 5/23/13 2:03 pm |
| Access | Gina Cruz | 5/23/13 12:59 pm |
| Equal treatment | Jerilyn Izac | 5/23/13 12:59 pm |
| Access | Shaun Hunt | 5/23/13 12:57 pm |
| Grandfathering Medical Facilities | Bianca Forbes | 5/23/13 12:56 pm |
| Oppose limiting access | Gigi DeJoy | 5/23/13 12:51 pm |
| Oppose TRAP!!!! | Jodi | 5/23/13 12:36 pm |
| Imposing Additional Construction Regulation on Exising Abortion-providing Facilities | Leslie Poole | 5/23/13 12:02 pm |
| TRAP | Jenny Larus | 5/23/13 11:42 am |
| TRAP | Emily Johnson | 5/23/13 10:36 am |
| TRAP - ALL or NONE | Kandi Mitchell | 5/23/13 10:14 am |
| TRAP | Delaney Jeter | 5/23/13 9:54 am |
| Amend the regulations for existing hospitals | Jesse Harrison | 5/23/13 9:49 am |
| TRAP | Kara Dodson | 5/23/13 9:48 am |
| TRAP | Jim Beckner | 5/23/13 9:47 am |
| Selective application of rules to stop legal services to women | Susan Kang | 5/23/13 9:46 am |
| 2010 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities | John P. McFarland, citizen of Virginia | 5/23/13 9:16 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Valerie Naquin | 5/22/13 2:01 pm |
| Trap | Chris Farmer | 5/22/13 11:42 am |
| TRAP | Alliance for Progressive Values | 5/21/13 3:00 pm |
| Oppose Trap regulations | Tracey Wingold, LCSW | 5/21/13 2:04 pm |
| Consistency | Barbara Burgess | 5/21/13 1:01 pm |
| OpposeTRAP | Gabrielle Schatz | 5/21/13 12:21 pm |
| consistent public health policies | Micki Parr, UniteWomen.Org-VA | 5/21/13 11:18 am |
| women's rights | Bradford Nelson | 5/21/13 7:49 am |
| Equality is only fair | Barry | 5/21/13 12:20 am |
| There can not be selective application of the law! | William Carino | 5/21/13 12:10 am |
| Ken Cuccinelli is a disgrace who should have his liscense to practice law revoked. | Daniel Fargason, Veterans For Peace | 5/21/13 12:08 am |
| You're wrong. | jason aldrich | 5/21/13 12:01 am |
| TRAP | Dallas Branum | 5/20/13 11:56 pm |
| Selective application of regulations | Graham Evans | 5/20/13 11:56 pm |
| T R A P | R. Ashby Zehmer | 5/20/13 10:08 pm |
| Perfidy | Alexandra Duckworth | 5/20/13 10:05 pm |
| TRAP - | Eva E. Hatch | 5/20/13 9:39 pm |
| Disappointed in my state | Ada Reso | 5/20/13 9:24 pm |
| No trap! | Dqb | 5/20/13 8:52 pm |
| Patient Safety | Kati Hornung | 5/20/13 8:19 pm |
| Board of Health decision on abortion clinics - Ken Cucinelli for | Brenda Whitener | 5/20/13 8:00 pm |
| TRAP Laws Distorted Motivation | Pete Burnham | 5/20/13 10:13 am |
| PLAY FAIR | Lucinda Law | 5/20/13 9:44 am |
| If you really care about public safety | Eileen Davis, RN | 5/20/13 9:43 am |
| RE: TRAP | Angela Barnes | 5/20/13 12:12 am |
| PLAY FAIR AND STOP THE MADNESS | Sandee Delano | 5/19/13 10:33 pm |
| Oppose TRAP | Sarah Groves | 5/19/13 1:00 pm |
| TRAP | Fred Hamill | 5/19/13 12:36 pm |
| Grandfathering | Amalie Davidson | 5/19/13 12:35 pm |
| Access | Hali Yun | 5/19/13 12:34 pm |
| No hospital of any kind should be regulated out of business by unnecessary structural updates with n | Laura Gwinn | 5/19/13 12:33 pm |
| Grandfathering | Casey Dokoupil | 5/19/13 12:32 pm |
| New legal precedence | Eva Hatch | 5/19/13 12:31 pm |
| There can not be selective application of the law! | Julia D Willard | 5/19/13 12:30 pm |
| TRAP | Brenda Hill | 5/19/13 12:29 pm |
| Hospital Regulations | Liz Van Pelt | 5/19/13 12:28 pm |
| TRAP | Edie Halstead | 5/19/13 12:27 pm |
| TRAP | jolene windle | 5/19/13 12:25 pm |
| There can not be selective application of the law! | Kathy Carle | 5/19/13 12:23 pm |
| There can not be selective application of the law! | Jean Roy Jone | 5/19/13 12:21 pm |
| TRAP | Jamie Nolan | 5/19/13 12:05 pm |
| TRAP | Tim Wheeler | 5/19/13 12:03 pm |
| TRAP | Geaorge Smith | 5/19/13 12:03 pm |
| TRAP | Patrick McCrerey | 5/19/13 12:01 pm |
| TRAP | Michael Davidson | 5/19/13 12:00 pm |
| Oppose TRAP | Teresa Villazoiv | 5/19/13 11:56 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Mary Burkett | 5/19/13 11:54 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Andrew Goodwin | 5/19/13 11:53 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Lexi Gray | 5/19/13 11:52 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Heather Umburger | 5/19/13 11:51 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Alan Condrey | 5/19/13 11:50 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Spencer Cox | 5/19/13 11:49 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Erica Borey | 5/19/13 11:48 am |
| Oppose TRAP | John Levesque | 5/19/13 11:47 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Mylinda Moore | 5/19/13 11:46 am |
| TRAP | Virginia Plotnick | 5/18/13 11:45 am |
| Grandfathering in should continue | Brooke Plotnick | 5/18/13 12:25 am |
| TARP | Francie Schroeder | 5/17/13 10:51 pm |
| ABORTION CLINIC REGULATIONS AND INTEGRITY OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH | Kenneth Olshansky, M.D. Physician | 5/17/13 3:38 pm |
| Abortion clinic regulations | Ike Koziol, MD | 5/17/13 2:52 pm |
| TRAP | Marcella Shaver | 5/17/13 1:39 pm |
| Medical Centers | T.Thomas Dreyer | 5/17/13 12:46 am |
| Regulate for Safety Consistently | Liz Musselman | 5/16/13 11:13 pm |
| Women, hospitals, and control | Marjorie L Fox | 5/16/13 8:29 pm |
| TRAP | Basak Durgun | 5/16/13 1:30 pm |
| The law cannot be applied selectively! | Wendy Klein, MD, FACP | 5/16/13 9:29 am |
| TRAP | Jonathan Cunningham | 5/15/13 10:48 pm |
| oppose TRAP | Jennifer Amos | 5/15/13 10:38 pm |
| Rules and Regulations for the Licensure of Hospitals in Virginia | Maggie Clayton | 5/15/13 4:08 pm |
| STOP TRAP | Sarah Harig | 5/15/13 3:06 pm |
| Grandfather; be consistent, regulate for safety not to violate Roe v Wade. | Cheryl Marschak | 5/15/13 2:26 pm |
| Reducing healthcare access for poor and underinsured women and men | Wes McWillen | 5/15/13 2:12 pm |
| TRAP | James Kinney | 5/15/13 12:35 pm |
| Why Only Abortion Clinics? | Wayside Center | 5/15/13 12:34 pm |
| TRAP is hypocritical | Jeff Winder | 5/15/13 12:30 pm |
| Dichotomous Irrelevancy | Kendall Perkinson | 5/15/13 12:22 pm |
| I oppose discriminatory application of TRAP regulations | Jennifer Archer | 5/15/13 11:27 am |
| TRAP | Brandon Nastanski | 5/15/13 10:41 am |
| OPPOSE TRAP | Autumn Barrett | 5/14/13 10:44 am |
| TRAP is planting the seeds of the new fury | Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender | 5/13/13 9:40 pm |
| TRAP rules must be altered | Donna Brusoski | 5/13/13 9:13 pm |
| I oppose TRAP! Keep abortion safe and legal! | Shannon Griffin | 5/13/13 8:04 pm |
| Opposing TRAP and selective application of the law | J. Stevens | 5/13/13 6:28 pm |
| TRAP | Amber McNeal | 5/13/13 6:12 pm |
| Selective enforcement is unjust enfocement. | Kat McNeal | 5/13/13 6:04 pm |
| Equal regulation of hospital licensure | Gail Christie | 5/13/13 5:58 pm |
| Either ALL or NONE of Virginia's hospitals have to meet these standards. | Andrea Koltz | 5/13/13 5:19 pm |
| TRAP | James Quincy Morrissey | 5/13/13 11:15 am |
| The law must be equally applied to all hospitals | Prabha Iyer | 5/13/13 8:53 am |
| Equal application of the Board of Health Hospital Regulations | Patricia Scott | 5/13/13 3:19 am |
| Either ALL or NONE of Virginia's hospitals have to meet these standards. | mary braun | 5/13/13 1:03 am |
| No to TRAP | Doug Sly | 5/13/13 12:56 am |
| Apply Equal Protection of the Law, not TRAP Ideology and Right Wing Politics | Joe Cook, Council Organizer, MoveOn.org Hampton Roads | 5/11/13 9:36 pm |
| Regulate All or None | Jordan Romeo | 5/11/13 5:38 pm |
| TRAP --- questionable legal action | JoEllen Daniel | 5/10/13 7:12 pm |
| TRAP is a trap for my daughter and everyone else's. | Rain Burroughs | 5/10/13 1:32 pm |
| Your selective enforcement of TRAP regulations | D McBride | 5/10/13 11:13 am |
| TRAP regulations | Christi Harris | 5/10/13 9:59 am |
| 2 Points | Bob McNeal | 5/10/13 9:57 am |
| TRAP | Lynn West | 5/10/13 9:03 am |
| TRAP Law | James McCollum | 5/10/13 8:37 am |
| Stop TRAP | David Connell | 5/9/13 10:13 pm |
| WORRIED ABOUT HOSPITAL SAFETY! | Elizabeth Remick | 5/9/13 12:17 pm |
| The law must be applied equally. | Van Lynch | 5/9/13 10:12 am |
| Regulation of Women's clinics | Leslie Rubio | 5/9/13 9:45 am |
| Agreed | Simon Ishikawa | 5/8/13 10:46 pm |
| TRAP | Elizabeth Hollingsworth | 5/8/13 7:02 pm |
| Equal Treatment under the Law - TRAP | Leslie Lytle | 5/8/13 1:42 pm |
| TRAP is a TRAP | Bob | 5/8/13 11:53 am |
| Oppose TRAP | Lillie A. Estes, ALO Community Strategy | 5/8/13 8:53 am |
| TRAP regulations | Suzanne Keller | 5/8/13 6:58 am |
| I oppose TRAP | Christina Leslie-Helmke | 5/7/13 9:38 pm |
| TRAP legislation | S C Coleman | 5/7/13 9:16 pm |
| TRAP is trapping women | Leia Peison | 5/7/13 6:32 pm |
| Regulations on Hospitals | Jane Riley Peterson | 5/7/13 2:12 pm |
| TRAP | Shiela Brown | 5/7/13 1:42 pm |
| I oppose TRAP. | Julia Nims, Uterus-Haver | 5/7/13 12:32 pm |
| TRAP | Roberta Elford | 5/6/13 9:12 pm |
| TRAP | Helena Carlton. small business owner | 5/6/13 7:39 pm |
| What's good for the goose... | Candace Graham | 5/6/13 5:27 pm |
| Cuccinelli can't have selective application of the law | Whitney Whiting | 5/6/13 5:18 pm |
| TRAP | Margaret Doyle | 5/6/13 3:21 pm |
| Regulate all hospitals equally | Kelsea Jeter | 5/6/13 3:05 pm |
| TRAP | Ann Furniss | 5/6/13 12:35 pm |
| Building Codes | Sally Mullikin | 5/6/13 12:03 pm |
| Either ALL or NONE of Virginia's hospitals have to meet these standards. | Melissa Dopp | 5/6/13 10:43 am |
| TRAP | Breanne Armbrust | 5/6/13 10:18 am |
| TRAP's selective application | Carly Romeo | 5/6/13 9:31 am |
| it's a TRAP! grandfathering cannot be selective | Jill Carrillo | 5/6/13 9:22 am |
| TRAP | Cindy Bennett | 5/6/13 9:01 am |
| Call it what it is: state control of women's lives | M C Quinlan | 5/6/13 8:56 am |
| TRAP | Daniel Coakley | 5/6/13 8:56 am |
| TRAP | Melinda Skinner | 5/6/13 8:40 am |
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