For those of you interested, around noon today the HSDA overturned a previous court ruling 7-1 in favor of the Spring Hill Hospital. They are now in the process of writing their decision (and systematically tearing apart Williamson Medical and Maury Regional). Williamson and Maury could appeal this one more time to the Supreme Court (which they might) so now is the time to start writing your representatives and tell them to put this to an end.
By the way...hold on to those wallets because both of our counties are going to be spending a bundle on ALL of these legal proceedings. Remember, loser pays ALL. Seeing that room full of attorneys, and knowing how many rooms full of attorneys there have been in this fight, it is going to be AWFULLY expensive! What a great way to spend OUR money.
I will be back later when this all shakes out some more.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Slam Dunk (7-1)
Posted by Gorilla in the Corner at 1:55 PM
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Wahoo! Thanks to everyone for getting this thing done.
Hey Gorilla, I got this email from the mayor a short time ago. Don't know if you have seen it yet.
Dear fellow citizens:
It is another "GREAT" day in the city of Spring Hill and for all citizens of Williamson and Maury counties. Increasing the Healthcare professionals in any community is improving the quality of life for all citizens of both counties.
Over two years ago, the leadership of Spring Hill invited HCA's TriStar Health System to meet with us to discuss our current and long term healthcare needs. Emergency services within the city limits of Spring Hill were an important and immediate need, and we knew the city was growing rapidly and would soon need more extensive healthcare services such as its own hospital.
That meeting resulted in HCA TriStar’s support of a new 911 Ambulance service for the City of Spring Hill that started in the summer of 2006. It also resulted in an assessment by HCA TriStar that confirmed the need for a 56 bed hospital in Spring Hill by 2010.
As you are all aware a CON (certificate of need) application was filed in the spring of 2006 and the Tennessee Health Services Development Agency approved that application by a vote of 7 to 1 in July of 2006. Unfortunately, that CON was opposed and subsequently appealed by other area hospitals, resulting in additional delays in the construction of Spring Hill Hospital.
Today, for a second time, the Tennessee Health Services Development Agency has again voted (votes were 7 to 1) that a hospital in the City of Spring Hill is needed, is economically feasible, and contributes to the orderly development of healthcare.
For the sake of current and future citizens of Spring Hill, it is my hope that all further opposition to this hospital will end. It is not only costly, but it is divisive. And, there are simply times when the collective determination of a people is greater than the capacity of a mighty opposition.
The HSDA has required the non profit hospitals of Williamson Medical and Maury Regional to shoulder the costs for both parties associated with the appeals process. The cost to taxpayers of both counties is going to be in the millions and if they continue to prolong the inevitable the costs will become even greater for you and I. I encourage each of you to contact your elected officials for each county and demand that the continued divisiveness and senseless waste of taxpayers' money cease.
Sincerely,
Mayor Leverette
http://www.nashvillepost.com/newspics/Spires_v_HCA--USDC11Apr2006.pdf
Take a gander at this.
Gandered... what exactly is your point posting a 2 year old pdg that reads like an angry high schooler wrote it?
Just to raise the point that this is what you are fighting so hard for. A company that will let you lay dead in an ICU to save money. This is a formal complaint, not some page. This is a legal doc.
Sorry, but "some corporation" is not what we were fighting for... and if you don't understand what we were fighting for by now - then I guess there's not much point in trying to convince you.
I'm a lifetime native of the Spring Hill area and still don't understand the need for a 56 bed hospital? Does anyone else feel the same?
Personally, if I needed emergency medical attention, I'd go to Nashville any way. I delivered my children at Vandy...Williamson Medical is a joke and I hope I never have to be treated in Maury County, aka, Murder Regional!
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