The attorney for Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., has called the hospital’s potential 40-year lease “a controlled sale,” according to a News Herald report.
As opposed to a sale, leasing the hospital would still let the board have some control over the facility. Bay Medical administrators are negotiating with Sacred Heart Health in Pensacola, Fla., and Plano, Texas-based LHP Hospital Group to lease the hospital, allowing the hospital’s special district to pay off its debt while also letting Bay Medical join a hospital system.
The initial term of the lease is 40 years along with two 10-year extensions. For the extensions, the joint venture would lease the hospital’s land for $100,000 each year.
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