Closing time.

PositionTRIAD REGION - Yadkin Valley Community Hospital - Brief article

With six urgent-care clinics or hospitals within 25 minutes, Yadkin Valley Community Hospital may have outlived its purpose. The 20-bed hospital in Yadkinville closed in May amid litigation and finger-pointing between county officials and its operator, Kansas City-based HMC/ CAH Consolidated. The county owns the building, but HMC retained the licenses and a lease for the building through July 31. HMC says it lost $55,000 in May at the Yadkin hospital and would lose $300,000 if forced to stay open through July, according to a legal filing. The hospital has averaged less than 10 daily patients in recent months. Seeking a new operator, the county received bids from three potential suitors, including Winston-Salem-based Wake Forest Baptist Health and Elkin-based Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital. But the bids were...

To continue reading

Request your trial

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT