Currently the Massena’s Town Council is looking to
privatizing the Massena Memorial Hospital. The Town Council hired Newpoint
Health Care Advisors back in August after the Massena Memorial Hospital Board
of Managers had voted on whether to move further with converting the hospital into
a private, nonprofit facility.
Newpoint Health Care Advisors was only hired to do a
six-month study, in which they also had to spoke with hospital employees. If
the hospital does privatize, the hospital employees will no longer be part of
the state retirement system. Newpoint also looked into if the hospital will be
eligible to receive intergovernmental transfer money if the hospital does
privatize.
There will be a public meeting on this Wednesday at 5:30 at
the Massena Town Hall, in which the Newpoint Health Care will present their
findings. But before the meeting, Town council members will meet privately with
the consultant at 4:30 that same day.
Mr. Gray (Town Supervisor) expects a good crowd to show up.
After looking at Massena’s website: http://www.massenaworks.com/index.asp
, there is not a posting or notification of the meeting on the site. Also there
isn’t one posted on the Massena Memorial Hospital website either: http://massenahospital.iarbiz.com/MbW8LyXfOGo=
.
Keep Massena Memorial Hospital Public is a Facebook page
where their goal is: “We are
building a community coalition of Massena NY residents and businesses to keep
control over OUR public hospital”. This group didn’t have a post of
notification about the meeting, but did have a site where you can sign their
online petition (link to online petition www.change.org/petitions/keep-mmh-public).
Sources
Fairchild, Benny. Town’s consultant to issue findings from
Massena Memorial Hospital study Wednesday. Watertown Daily Times. Received
from: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news05/towns-consultant-to-issue-findings-from-massena-memorial-hospital-study-wednesday-20150323
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