California’s special emergency fund for financially distressed hospitals probably would not have passed the Legislature this year had it not been for the failure of a rural hospital off Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley.
Ken DeFurio had a good year in 2021, with a bonus and retention award of $245,000 — the highest in a decade — driving his total annual compensation as president and CEO of Butler Health System to $1.26 million.
In addition to selecting candidates for Senate, Congress and even president, residents of the Pajaro Valley may have one more decision to make when filling out their March primary ballots: whether or not to approve an approximately $105 million bond measure for projects at Watsonville Community Hospital.
The Heywood Urgent Care Center at 266 Main St. is shifting its business model, effective Dec. 1 and suspending its urgent care services for the general public. Instead of seeing patients who may or may not have a primary care provider, the practice is changing to provide same-day sick care visits only to those patients whose primary care physician is a member of the Heywood Medical Group.
Lewis County Health System is one step closer to being reimbursed millions of dollars from the county. The Health and Human Services Committee unanimously approved moving $2.5 million from this year’s fund balance and $1 million per year over the next two years.
Lion Star LLC, the group that operates Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, saying it owes as much as $50 million to creditors. But CEO Sean Fowler says the company shows signs of profitability and “our assets handily outweigh our liabilities.”