It did not take long for the predictions made on this site years ago to come to fruition. Despite the fact that the Keller BOD turned down $60+ million USD to join forces with the local ECM hospital years ago to form one large new hospital, they have spent millions in a wasted effort to prevent the local community from having a new hospital, and now they plan to sign a 40 year agreement with HH which is supposed to be "good" for the area. The only thing missing from this scenario is Baghdad Bob standing up on the podium telling us how much this will benefit the community. The arrangement is supposed to be similar to what is currently underway in the Decatur system where HH assumed control of Parkway and Decatur General, and then funneled most of the patient services to HH. Decatur Hospital then lost about half of their bed (116 if I remember correctly), and with no plans to update the building, these will likely be gone for good. The same thing will happen here. HH's only desire is to syphon services from this area and to prevent this area from having a new state of the art hospital. With the recent annoucement by the bond holders in regards to HKH's debt it was obvious something like this would have to happen.
The people of Colbert county should hold the BoD and the commissioners accountable. The hospital could have been sold 4 years ago with a $30M profit that would have gone a long way toward helping the community and funding the retirement plans of the employees there, but instead millions have been wasted, and now they sign a 40 year agreement which will eventually seal the fate of the organization.
Something ain't right there.