GCRMC’s board of directors authorized the filing in order to continue critical healthcare services while creating an orderly process to resolve a group of lawsuits in a fair and timely manner. The majority of lawsuits were filed from June-Oct. 2010 and relate to procedures that were performed by physicians who no longer work at the hospital and have have not been performed at the hospital in nearly three years. All efforts to resolve these lawsuits have been unsuccessful.
Hospital employees will continue to receive wages, salaries and benefits during the Chapter 11 process, and all vendors providing goods and services to the hospital after the Chapter 11 filing will be paid in full for those goods and services, among other protections.
Read the hospital release about Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center’s Chapter 11 petition.
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