An estimated 52 of the 400 employees of Crittenden Regional Hospital had their jobs saved by a local doctor. Scott Ferguson, a West Memphis-based radiologist, and Rick Williams, who owns hospice care facilities around Arkansas, have acquired Crittenden Regional's Home Health and Hospice Care facility. After years of financial troubles, the hospital was to be the beneficiary of a sales tax increase designed to make up for short falls. But a summer fire forced the facility to close, resulting in repairs that prevented it from reopening. The hospital officially closed in late August. Ferguson, who was previously a Democratic state legislator in Arkansas, said the acquisition will allow between 200 and 300 home health patients to keep the same staff members they've used for years.
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