ViaSana, a specialized clinic in Mill, wants to move and expand in a new place. For the construction of a new clinic, the care institution has set its sights on a piece of land of about two hectares in Uden. But Enexis throws a spanner in the works: the network operator cannot currently offer large steam connections. “Very painful for us, but also for the municipality,” says founder of the Jos Althuizen clinic.
With around 14,000 new patients a year and 200 employees, Viasana has grown considerably in twenty years. “Where we are now, we have grown a bit out of our jacket,” says Jos Althuizen. “We can still move forward in the building in Mill, but if you look at the coming, we will encounter limits,” adds general director Paul Kruijsen. “And so we started the search for a new location about five years ago.”
The organization dropped its eye on a piece of land on the Vluchtoordweg in Uden. According to her, a ‘great location’. “In the middle of our catchment area, very easily accessible and very beautiful in the green”, the two gentlemen lists the benefits. If the expansion here became reality, the clinic could, according to them, grow considerably, with around 25 percent they indicate.
An ambition that the municipality of Maashorst, which includes Uden, is sitting. But network manager Enexis throws a spanner in the works. The problem is that the network operator cannot yet offer large power connections. A problem that several companies and new -build neighborhoods encounter. It means for Viasana that she cannot build at the location she desired. “Painful for us, but also for the municipality. It hangs like a sword of Damocles above us,” says Althuizen.
“We are busy putting pressure on Enexis, but of course everyone does that.”
“If it doesn’t go ahead, then we will continue in Mill,” adds Kruijsen “but then very large extensions are not possible. Then we will encounter our borders. But I just hope that Uden will succeed.”
Hope that alderman Gijs van Heeswijk of the municipality of Maashorst shares with them. “This is a care provider of the outside category that we would like to get to our municipality. We are busy putting pressure on Enexis, but of course everyone does that.”
The municipality and the clinic have in any case concluded a reservation agreement with each other. “That means that within now and five years we have to get Enexis’s warranty for a connection to the network. If that succeeds, we will enter into the purchase agreement,” says Kruijsen.
ViaSana specializes in the treatment of movement and pain complaints on knee, hip, shoulder, back and feet.
