Harpeth Hospital

A few interesting developments in the Spring Hill Hospital Appeal:

FIRST
State briefs: Personnel official to take new post

The real intersting news is in the last sentance of the main article:
"Deputy Gov. Dave Cooley announced Friday he would leave the administration Jan. 15 to return to the private sector, and state Commerce and Insurance Commissioner Paula Flowers announced Monday she would leave her post."

Since one of the members of the HSDA board is the "Commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Insurance or his/her designee", I assume that Paula Flowers will also be leaving the HSDA Board.

So, now that the lone dissenter on the HSDA Board has resigned, does this mean that the current HSDA board UNANIMOUSLY approves of Spring Hill Hospital?

Boy, that's gotta hurt WMC and MRH's chances of a successful appeal, don't you think?

SECOND
What is WMC doing proposing an Emergency Room in Thompson's Station?

I thought that our current and future needs were already being adequately provided by WMC (FLASHBACK: "We definately believe we already meet the need for hospital services").

Don't believe me about the Emergency Room in Thompson's Station? Take a look at the first floor of the proposed SeniorHealth / WMC partnership Harpeth Hospital in Thompson's Station...




Why would a rehab/psych hospital require such a large Emergency Room? Surely not for all of those medical detoxes as SeniorHealth and WMC would have you believe will occur in the application for CON0609-071.

THIRD, AND FINALLY
On the heels of a formal Freedom of Information Act request from Citizens for a Spring Hill Hospital to MRH and WMC for disclosure of all costs associated with opposing Spring Hill Hospital and the ongoing appeal, I would like to urge our friends (who are very much viewing this blog on an hourly basis) to honor this FOIA request as this is information that the public NEEDS to AND HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW. In the spirit of full disclosure by all, I would like to present to you the as yet to be audited WMC Fiscal Year 2006 Financial Statements...



I wonder just how much of an effect a Multi-Million Dollar appeal is going to have on a facility that is showing Net Operating Income of $6,856,830 (remember, that's where the cost of the appeal is really going to have its effect)...

In the real world, if I told my boss that I was going to do something that would reduce our operating income by 15 or 20 percent, I would probably be looking for a new job.