Facing financial woes, Florida hospital reportedly misses payroll

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (WMBB) – Staff at Healthmark Regional Medical Middle in DeFuniak Springs have apparently not gotten their most up-to-date paycheck.

Information 13 spoke with a medical skilled presently working at Healthmark who has chosen to stay nameless.

They stated they haven’t been paid in three weeks.

“Nobody has been paid to my data, together with salaried folks as a result of I requested right this moment, since… our final payday was April 22,” our supply stated.

Information 13 discovered that Healthmark Chief Working Officer Lisa Holley provided to offer a letter to workers to present to banks and collectors.

It states that Healthmark is experiencing a delay in payroll obligations and that as a result of circumstances past their management, funding was not out there to cowl paychecks.

We even have an inner message to workers from hospital administrator Melissa Rebecca, which stated everybody will probably be paid when funds are launched by the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Companies.

We repeatedly left messages for her, asking for an announcement concerning these points, however she has not returned our calls or offered any remark.

“So far as anybody can say it’s closed,” our supply stated. “There’s no inpatients, there’s no ER, there’s nothing. I imply the ancillary companies are there however there’s not a affected person within the constructing except they’re an outpatient getting their labs drawn.”

The emergency room closed again on March 18 for renovations.

Officers anticipated the closure to final two to 4 weeks.

That was eight weeks in the past.

Regardless of the dearth of sufferers, the worker we spoke to stated hospital workers are nonetheless working, even when not practising drugs.

“They’ve had the paramedics and the nurses and anybody that was full-time just about anybody, together with dietary, doing in-house modification, portray, and issues of that nature,” our supply stated.

And apparently working with out pay for now.

“I’m not actual positive whether or not I’m supposed to return to work and provides them extra of my time and never be paid for it, or search for one other employer,” our supply stated.

Whereas the emergency room is closed, Walton County EMS has been taking emergency sufferers to different close by hospitals, principally Ascencion Sacred Coronary heart Emerald Coast in Miramar Seaside or North Okaloosa Medical Middle in Crestview.