Days after Hutcheson Medical Center shut its doors, Erlanger Health System expanded the hours of its North Georgia clinic Monday.
Erlanger South Primary Care, located in Ringgold, Ga., will now be open until 10 p.m. on weekdays, offering acute walk-in care after 5 p.m. Advanced Practice Practitioners runs the clinic in the evenings and offers radiology and lab tests to patients.
Staff photo by Maura Friedman / Paramedic Sandra Gray, right, comforts RN Katrina Park upon hearing that staff will be laid off at Hutcheson Medical Center on Tuesday in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.Also read
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(From left) Kim Plant, Hutcheson Director of Physician Practice Operations, Tiffany Richards, Hutcheson Medical Staff Coordinator, Michelle Chandler, Hutcheson Occupational Health, and Jennifer Frazier, Hutcheson Director of Case Management, sit before Catoosa County Manager Jim Walker in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.The clinic is located at 60 Erlanger South Drive off Battlefield Parkway, about a half-mile east of Hutcheson’s ambulatory surgery and cancer center. Hutcheson’s properties shut down Friday after the trustee overseeing the bankrupt hospital’s finances said Hutcheson did not have enough money to continue operating.
Attorneys for Erlanger, Hutcheson, Regions Bank, Catoosa County and Walker County – all of which have financial investments in Hutcheson – have about one week to broker a last-minute deal to sell Hutcheson, allowing the hospital to reopen its doors. If nobody buys Hutcheson within 10 days of its closing, the hospital’s attorneys say, the hospital will permanently close.