Macon County General Hospital (MCGH) is a 25-bed critical access hospital in Lafayette, TN. In December, 2014 they partnered with Bernard Health to place a licensed, noncommissioned Bernard Health advisor in their emergency department five days a week.
As the CFO of a 25-bed critical access hospital in rural Tennessee, Thomas Kidd was focused on fulfilling the hospital’s community mission and meeting financial goals. In 2013, $1.5M of MCGH’s $23.5M total charges had been written off to bad-debt. Most of those write-offs were attributable to the 2,451 uninsured patients treated that year.
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