El Centro (Calif.) Regional Medical Center is looking to a merger to stay afloat after its acting CEO and CFO resigned, Becker’s reports.
Two managing directors from Nashville, Tenn.-based consulting firm Healthcare Management Partners were serving as the hospital’s top executives — until the firm issued a termination notice on Jan. 14, and both leaders stepped down.
The hospital has been struggling financially and recently cut its maternal and child health inpatient services.
At a Jan. 24 county roundtable meeting, Tomás Oliva — chair of the hospital’s board of trustees and a councilmember for the city of El Centro — shared a plan to alleviate financial pressures at El Centro and the nearby Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Brawley, Calif.
Mr. Oliva believes the hospitals should join together to create a single county healthcare district. Damon Sorensen, CEO of Pioneer Memorial Hospital, expressed interest but specified El Centro would have to solve its own financial woes. Read more.
