Thursday, September 13, 2018

Public meeting tonight on Hospital Sale

Local leaders are hosting a public forum starting at 6pm tonight to discuss the potential sale of the community hospital.

The meeting will be held at Marion Ed-Tech Center on Industrial Drive.

A Crittenden Press poll on Twitter has found that many of you want more information about this potential sale. Current poll results are at shown in the accompanying graphic. There is still time to vote in this poll on Twitter. It ends in a few hours.

County officials and hospital directors will be there attempting to answer all questions.

Crittenden Health System's Board of Directors has proposed selling the hospital (a non-profit corporation) and the real estate (which is owned by the county) to Rural Health Group Consolidated, an affiliate company of a firm hired last fall to manage the hospital.

A couple of newspaper articles published by The Crittenden Press over the past few weeks have tried to answer many of the questions local residents may have with regard to the potential sale. If you have other questions or just want to listen in at the meeting Thursday, it is open to everyone.

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