Potential buyers of the Singing River Health System in Mississippi have until March 10 to submit their bids, reports WLOX.
In the meantime, it’s business as usual for the leadership and staff.
CEO Tiffany Murdock told the Moss Point Area Council of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce that the decision came from a position of strength, not weakness.
Murdock is in good spirits – for a lot of reasons.
The health system is healthy, and that’s exactly the reason to sell it now.
“It’s not a cheap industry anymore, and for it to be put on the taxpayers in Jackson and Harrison counties, it wasn’t fair,” she said. “And we wanted to do it from a place of strength. We didn’t want to do it when we were bankrupt or if that was a possibility. We wanted to do it because we want to grow.”
Murdock presented a state of the health system to the council and, in that, she gave a recap of 2022 with this headline:
“Unwavering change but strength and growth.”
SRHS is the second largest employer in Jackson County with about 3,500 employees with locations in Ocean Springs, Pascagoula and Gulfport. Read more.
