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Hutcheson Medical Centered is pictured in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.Hutcheson Medical Center opened its doors to patients again Tuesday afternoon.
The hospital’s emergency department, radiology department and lab relaunched at 4 p.m., said Kimberly Johnson, a spokeswoman for ApolloMD. The news comes 18 days after the bankrupt hospital closed, its administrators saying they did not have enough money to continue operating.
The hospital’s leaders said earlier this month they feared Hutcheson was doomed to close forever, with $82 million of debt and no white knight on the horizon. During a Dec. 11 bankruptcy court hearing, however, ApolloMD offered to buy Hutcheson for $4.2 million. ApolloMD is a physician’s group based in Atlanta that staffs more than 100 hospitals across the country.
The company also has been in charge of Hutcheson’s emergency department since June. After a bankruptcy court judge approved ApolloMD’s offer to buy Hutcheson last week, the company’s employees began to prepare the hospital to see patients again, ripping plywood off its windows and removing bags that covered Hutcheson’s signs.