BJC may have Tenn. buyer
BJC Medical Center may have found the white knight to rescue it from its financial difficulties. The Commerce-based facility announced Tuesday that it has entered a letter of intent with Restoration Healthcare, a Tennessee-based operator of hospitals, that could lead to the sale of BJC Medical Center.
A news release issued Tuesday said Restoration Healthcare has held preliminary meetings with local physicians who have expressed interest in developing a joint venture at BJC.
The news release quoted Steve Clapp, president of Restoration Healthcare, as saying, “We, in partnership with the outstanding physicians, will work hard to make BJC the hospital and nursing home of choice for citizens in Banks, Jackson, and surrounding counties.”
Restoration Healthcare operates each of its hospital locally in a joint venture with local and regional physicians, according to the news release.
The letter of intent is nonbinding. It opens the way for Restoration Healthcare to begin its “due diligence” review of the hospital and nursing home, and the parties will also begin negotiating a formal definitive and binding agreement covering the details of the transaction.
For more details on this story, see the June 24 issue of The Jackson Herald.
The news release quoted Steve Clapp, president of Restoration Healthcare, as saying, “We, in partnership with the outstanding physicians, will work hard to make BJC the hospital and nursing home of choice for citizens in Banks, Jackson, and surrounding counties.”
Restoration Healthcare operates each of its hospital locally in a joint venture with local and regional physicians, according to the news release.
The letter of intent is nonbinding. It opens the way for Restoration Healthcare to begin its “due diligence” review of the hospital and nursing home, and the parties will also begin negotiating a formal definitive and binding agreement covering the details of the transaction.
For more details on this story, see the June 24 issue of The Jackson Herald.
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Look at it like this:
*If they close BJC how many jobs will be lost?
*If they keep it open look at how many people will be working? I thought that during these hard times when jobs are so few I think it's a good thing?
And to all the RN's who are saying close the hospital?If you don't want to work there no more QUIT. I'm sure if you don't want to do your job somebody out there does? Nobody is making you work there? Right now alot of people would do your job for less money so shut up your belly aching if you don't like it quit then you will see how hard it is to get a job? After 6 months of looking for a job you would regret you quit.
I don't think a non-nurse could do the job. Good luck with that.
Nurses can find work any day of the week, even in this recession.
As far as finding a job, the government can't plan your life or your career. "Education is the currency of the 21st century."- Barak Obama, June, 2009. Plan for your future. Get your GED if you didn't make high school. Go to college or technical school. (the government will pay for this.) If you can't get educated then let this be a lesson for future generations, you will not do well. You will work hard and make little money and you will be the first to go during a recession. And if this is you, you have my pity. This is reality for many right now. It's a good time to go back to school. The fall semester starts in two months. Stop whining about keeping crappy hospitals open so you can be employed. You should be embarrased, not crying for handouts. Where is your American spirit? Get going!
This is a recession and everyone is trying to cut cost?
My point was you can't train just anyone to do the job. The successful nursing student candidate is head and shoulders above his/her peers. You can rarely turn a janitor into a nurse.
But if you want to round up some chicken farm workers and put them in nursing school, good luck with that. It's a bit more complicated than that.
Bottom line: BJC should not be a jobs program.
But to be serious let me ask you a serious question.How would you like to go to nursing school for a couple of years and graduate in the top 10% of your class and after all that schooling you get out and they have closed most of the medical centers down.Then how you going to feel? Knowing you trained to be a nurse and you have no other skills but to be a nurse but there is no where to work and you have to go to work at WalMart or McDonalds for $6.50 per hour?
News flash: Educated people do better in a recession. Get one. The government can help at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
No more excuses.
You want to question my Education? Well I have 2 college degrees and I have alot more common sense than you do.What about you?
Education is the currency of the 21st century - Barack Obama, June 2009.
My point here is to encourage education. Not to demean anyone. Too many people are looking to a Messiah to give them a job. That won't work in the 21st century. Most of the unemployed are uneducated. It's simply a fact.
That being said Is that good in a recession to have that many more people out of work? These shouldn't be hard for you Mr.Facts and Figures
This is referred to as the free-enterprise system. Socialism has been tried in the "former" Soviet Union. I know you don't want to try to defend that system do you?