For those of you who don’t know, Spring Hill is seated between 2 counties; Maury & Williamson. With that, there are lots of problems. One of which is that both counties have a hospital and it takes you around 30 minutes to get to either one. A few years ago, Spring Hill’s mayor died because it took the ambulance 20+ minutes to get to him.
HCA Tristar announced 2 years ago that they wanted to build a 56 bed hospital in Spring Hill. It was fought against by Maury Regional and Williamson Medical, yet gained approval from the state’s hospital board. The 2 hospitals appealed and won with a law judge (1st time ever happened). The ruling went back to the state’s board where they reapproved it.
Now, both hospitals are fighting in circuit court. In the meantime, we’re left with inadequate care and both hospitals could give a rip about that. They also are spending millions of our dollars to appeal because they say “the appeal is about quality and level of care, not a financial or business decision and that opposing the HCA facility is an effort to ensure a higher level of care for Spring Hill.”
If this is a higher level of care, then maybe they should just take a drive from Spring Hill to one of their hospitals during rush hour.
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