Hutcheson Medical Center in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
Hutcheson Medical Center officials are again asking for help paying the bills, but they’re hoping it’s the last time.
Walker County Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell approved a $1 million promissory note from the county’s general fund to help finance the hospital’s “working capital” at her commissioner’s meeting Thursday.
Don Oliver, Walker County’s attorney, said this loan is necessary to get the hospital through the next few weeks until it can sell its shares in Battlefield Imaging, which make up 51 percent. The group of physicians that owns the other 49 percent of shares is buying out Hutcheson for about $5.2 million.
“The Battlefield Imaging sale will be set up so the county will be reimbursed by wire transfer at the closing of those funds,” Oliver said.
Neither Catoosa County nor Dade County lent money to the hospital this time even though it’s backed by all three counties.