University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto says UK needs $2 billion in borrowing authority from the state to expand its Albert B. Chandler Hospital to treat patients who are being turned away for lack of room.
“We need … around $2 billion for a new hospital tower,” Capilouto said after meeting with Senate President Robert Stivers in Manchester, where Stivers lives.
Yale New Haven Health has asked the state to provide financial assistance in its acquisition of three Connecticut hospitals recently hit with a debilitating cyberattack, and for Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns the hospitals, to lower the $435 million purchase price.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has confirmed plans to extend the city’s redevelopment ban on the former Atlanta Medical Center site for another six months.
One of several clinics that were set to close following the shutdown of Martin General Hospital has found new life. Practice Manager Tammy Perry tells WITN that Roanoke Orthopedics is now owned by Agape Health Services which is based out of Washington.
In response to Hurricane Idalia and Pasco County evacuation orders, HCA Florida Trinity West Hospital, a mental health facility, temporarily suspended services and transferred six patients to other HCA Florida Healthcare mental health programs.
The downtime has afforded the hospital and HCA Healthcare West Florida Division teams an opportunity to assess the hurricane damage and the hospital’s mental healthcare services.
Because many of the state’s hospitals have already claimed some form of pandemic relief funds, those hospitals are ineligible for the money, an issue that lawmakers apparently did not consider.
Months after the Legislature passed a law directing millions to Mississippi’s struggling hospitals, not one has received that money, and far fewer than predicted will receive any money at all.
That’s because lawmakers erred in writing the statute, according to State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney.
Legislators in February established the Mississippi Hospital Sustainability Grant Program, which was supposed to disseminate $103 million in grant money to hospitals via the state Health Department. Despite a record state budget surplus, it was millions less than the state hospital association had asked for, but hospital leaders agreed it would help keep them afloat.