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Columbia Memorial Hospital outlines three-part plan to stabilize services; officials deny closure rumors
Summary
Columbia Memorial Hospital leaders told Greene County officials that CMH is not closing and laid out a three-part plan — expand geriatric psychiatric capacity, open an outpatient surgery center at Green Medical Arts, and pursue critical-access designation — aimed at keeping local care available amid financial pressure.
Columbia Memorial Hospital officials told Greene County legislators the hospital is not closing and detailed a three-part strategy they say is necessary to keep services in the area.
"There was a rally in Hudson saying that CMH is closing'That is wrong. Can't be further than the truth," Dr. Michael Weisberg, director of emergency and rapid care at Columbia Memorial, said in a presentation to the public policy committee. Weisberg, who said he has worked in the system since 2007, described three initiatives intended to stabilize the hospital's finances and maintain access to local care.
The first step is expanding inpatient capacity for older patients with both medical and psychiatric needs; Weisberg said the…
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