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Alabama

TexasTowelie

(116,767 posts) Thu Sep 14, 2017, 07:20 AM Sep 2017

Rural Alabama community to buy its own hospital

The city of Greenville, south of Montgomery, is buying its local hospital from a Tennessee company.

Tennessee based Quorum Health says it signed a definitive agreement to sell the seventy two bed L.V. Stabler Memorial Hospital to a city health care authority. No price was disclosed.

The sale is supposed to be finished before year's end. The company, spun off by Community Health Systems, has heavy debt and is losing money.

http://apr.org/post/rural-alabama-community-buy-its-own-hospital

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Rural Alabama community to buy its own hospital (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP

it probably will be managed better too. drray23 Sep 2017 #1

drray23

(7,962 posts)

1. it probably will be managed better too.

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Thu Sep 14, 2017, 09:30 AM

Sep 2017

Since they will have fewer beds and focus on being a service for the community instead of being driven by a corporate hospital chain trying to make as much profits as possible.

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