Mississippi
Negotiations collapse between Mississippi medical facilities
GREENWOOD, Miss (AP) — A financially-troubled Mississippi hospital introduced Friday that negotiations with a medical campus planning to take over the hospital had collapsed.
Simply hours after revealing its plan to put off as much as 80 workers, the Greenwood Leflore Hospital stated that the College of Mississippi Medical Heart was now not all in favour of finishing a deal to take over the hospital. The breakdown in talks will increase the chance of the hospital’s closure and threatens to lower well being care entry within the state’s impoverished delta area.
The hospital had been scrambling to chop prices in an effort to fulfill UMMC, a medical heart positioned in Mississippi’s capital metropolis of Jackson.
“Though we definitely can perceive and admire the problem of offering healthcare providers within the post-pandemic period, this resolution was not anticipated based mostly on the progress that had been made concerning a lease transaction,” reads a press release launched by a hospital spokesperson. “The monetary realities of offering healthcare providers are impacting each organizations.”
Native officers tried to revive negotiations final week when Greenwood and Leflore County agreed to separate the estimated $9 million UMMC requested to cowl deferred upkeep on the hospital and its excellent mortgage from the federal Medicare program. However the hospital didn’t have the money to cowl these obligations, the Greenwood Commonwealth reported.
The hospital had tried to ease monetary pressures by closing numerous items, together with its labor and supply unit. The transfer restricted entry to maternal care for girls within the surrounding areas. However the last-ditch efforts to save lots of the deal did not fulfill UMMC.
“Regardless of the most effective efforts of all events concerned, it has turn out to be clear to us that an settlement between the College of Mississippi Medical Heart and Greenwood Leflore Hospital is not going to be doable,” stated Dr. Alan Jones, affiliate vice chancellor for scientific affairs at UMMC. “We decided an settlement will not be doable on account of a number of components, essentially the most vital being the present realities of well being care economics that each one well being methods are dealing with on this difficult setting.”
In September, UMMC accomplished a transaction with Greenwood Leflore to take over two outpatient clinics beforehand operated by the hospital. The hospital stated in its assertion that it could consider choices for persevering with providers.