Kessler Memorial Hospital has closed it's doors as an acute care hospital for good this morning. According to several news reports, employees were told this morning that the doctor intending to purchase the hospital could not get the additional funding needed and the state ordered the hospital closed. All patients were either released or transferred to other hospitals. NBC-10 News reports all employees had been paid at least partial paychecks and told to remove their belongings as the hospital was closing.
The hospital has served the community since 1964 and it's a very sad ending for all the employees of the hospital, as well as for the communities it has served over the years. To the staff, we thank you for your professionalism and dedication during what must have been trying times of not knowing for the past year and working without pay, not knowing if you were going to get paid. ABC news reported the staff received one weeks pay and are still owed two weeks pay. THANK YOU.
There is an agreement with Atlanticare Regional Medical Center to establish satellite emergency services at Kessler Memorial Hospital, but it will no longer operate as a hospital and patients needing to be hospitalized will be transferred out. They will also be bringing in their own staff.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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Well, we really don't know yet if the hospital is closed for good. It could reopen. I wouldn't go so far as to say it won't open again until it is sold for another use.
I think in the end, Atlantic care will probably take it over but they're waiting for a better price.
It is sad for the area that we are losing Kessler as a hospital. $7.5 million is a cheap price for the facility. I feel sorry for the staff as there is not much available in the area. AtlantiCare is not a savior, they are a big bucks operation that will not want the farm labor workers darkening their doors. Watch how they run the ER when they take it over.
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