Well, the medical community of Starkville is damn near nonexistent and holds back the area. Nobody wants to go to the Northeast Campus of Jackson (Columbus). Starkville needs a larger medical community and the hospital to grow the area. Otherwise, it won't grow much and that hurts worse than competition.
Didn’t mean to imply that they would oppose it. I’m sure every major hospital system in the state would dump a truckload of money to lobbyists to keep them in place if they were ever in danger of repeal.
I've never understood how Meridian supports two hospitals of that size, literally on opposite sides of the street. With zero knowledge other than driving by and seeing proximity, it never made sense to me.
Health care in Meridian used to serve a pretty good sized health care market area in east MS and west AL but I don't know how much that has declined. I know for a fact that part of the problem is getting physicians to come to MS, especially small town MS.
I’ve worked for both Baptist hospitals in Oxford and in Memphis. Oxford is well run for the most part. Memphis is very up and down. They’ll accumulate a good crop of staff and not do what is needed to retain them, and then they’re stuck with a bunch of fresh face newbies. I’ve seen the cycle many times. Baptist is the stereotypical healthcare organization that will do everything they can to squeeze out more while providing less and be reactive instead of proactive. I could go all day about how screwed up the medical corporation is though.This is good news, imo, for the local community/region
Supervisors select Baptist as potential buyer of Starkville hospital
Oktibbeha County supervisors selected Baptist Memorial Health Care as the potential buyer of the Starkville hospital.www.wtva.com
Your last comment provoked this non-germane thought: I fear that the providing of legal services to the public is going the way of health care and will catch up once the prohibition against non-lawyers owning equity in law firms is entirely eliminated. Hopefully I will be sayonara by then and living on a ranch that don't rent pigs.
Not sure why they'd do this over an in state hospital other than it not wanting to go into bidding war with Baptist. Taking in state insurance than dealing with out of state. That area looks like it would have a lot of Alabama medicaid.
About 8 years too late.This is good news, imo, for the local community/region
Supervisors select Baptist as potential buyer of Starkville hospital
Oktibbeha County supervisors selected Baptist Memorial Health Care as the potential buyer of the Starkville hospital.
It ain't rocket science.
Ok so you post didn’t really make sense.
The one thing you are forgetting is Medicaid. Every 5 or so years the Legislature looks at doing away with CON laws, looks at how much its going to cost the taxpayer, and decides against it. Like everything else, we have too many poor folks.
naw man administrators are a waste of money, gotta cut them all
No one has ever said administration was a waste of money.
They were. Got out bid. Baptist could not afford to let them take over Starkville. It would hurt business in Columbus.
They used to have 3 when I was growing up there, all right by each other. It was called Pill Hill. Everyone from the surrounding area came to Meridian for health care. Not sure that's the case anymore.
So you are saying that the CON laws are a way to limit service provided to medicaid patients? Have not heard of that but I guess it must accomplish that to some extent because I guess everybody that is of limited capacity is going to cut out medicaid patients first.
What attack as the current administration made on Medicare? It has proposed a budget that doesn't leave much area to cut other than in Medicaid, but otherwise, what are these claims based on?
Which is why I'm afraid Baptist winning won't be good for Starkville.
I have worked with both Hospitals. Both have good and bad, but NMHS better ran in this area. Baptist in Columbus is linked to Memphis and the furthest out. They often go overlooked. NMHS is located here and looking to expand and grow. Would not shock me if they make some type of move into Starkville.
Yes and no. I spoke with an administrator. The problem is no one wants to work too hard either. For example they need two endocrinologist. No one wanted to come and be the only one/ always on call. That was a few years ago but I'm sure the principal is still the same.
What does this mean? Are you being obtuse on purpose?
So you didn’t read the question? Or you don’t know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
