Home Health & Hospice Week
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Hospital Sheds Home Care After Years Of Losses
Published on Fri Feb 06, 2015
Murray-Calloway County Public Hos-pital in Kentucky has agreed to sell its home health and adult day care units to Louisville-based Baptist Health, according to the Murray Ledger & Times newspaper.
“It was a tough decision, but it’s about what is best for this hospital and the community,” said hospital CEO Jerry Penner. The home health unit lost about $750,000 last year, the newspaper reports. Similar losses went back at least five years, Penner told the paper.
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