HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93009_0570Mr. Pope said 160A-279 is a provision of the General Statutes
which allows you to sell County property to public entities for
which you are authorized to appropriate money at private sale,
whereas, if you were going to sell a piece of real estate to the
public in general, you would have to comply with the public sale
requirements. Iredell Memorial Hospital is an entity to which the
county is authorized to appropriate funds. You may sell property
to the schools, the hospital, or other agencies to which you
appropriate funds, at a private sale. The procedure for selling
propertyt a
rivate sale is set forth in wanted to take a few moments toe review. 160A-279,
Commissioner Boone made some comments regarding information he
had received from the Institute of Government regarding the home
health matter.
Chairman Haire recognized Mr. Jeff Corbett to speak. Mr.
Corbett said he found this out at the "eleventh hour." He said
Davis Community Hospital has been heavily involved and interested
in this. Mr. Corbett thought this was a last minute attempt to
pull this through the back door" and to negate hours and hours of
study and deliberation that have been done over the last few
months. He made further comments and said that Davis Hospital
feels that it is in the public good for the citizens of Iredell
County to sell this asset at fair market price, and the only way to
establish this is through the bid process, he said. He questioned
Commissioner Hamby's remark about "out-of-town" agencies. He said
Davis Community Hospital is a member of the Health Trust
Corporation, the second largest hospital company in the United
States. Since 1925 many dollars have been spent in Iredell County
on taxes. Since becoming a public entity in 1983, they have spent
ve invested over $40 million in new
e1.2 quipment. He addressetaxes d the 0
iindigent care issuesaying that the
Davis share of Medicaid, self -pay and indigent increased by 3.2% as
a percentage of business, where Iredell Memorial's fell by 1.1% as
• aid he felt
disappointment business,rcent of s
poi tme t that the board of commissioners would be going along
with the proposal, and asked that they again reconsider the fair
market value, Mr. Corbett said.
Commissioner Stewart asked Mr. Corbett about the meetings
regarthe
if
Davisding the officialsoevertium k ptbtheirnappointmentals withncount
Mr. Popeand�Mr.
Mashburn and the others involved. Mr. Corbett said that was a
difficult time for Mr. Blaine, the administrator at Davis Hospital,
because he was in process of accepting a promotion, and as a result
Mr. Blaine was called out of town. He said that he had told Mr.
Mashbrn by otheruhospitals et000perate the alliance
home health agencywasa practical
thing, that it would be a difficult thing to establish.
Commissioner Boone said he thought Davis Community Hospital
was a good corporate citizen and was glad the county could support
three hospitals.
Mr. Nunnery spoke regarding the home health issue. He said
these were very dynamic times, especially in the health care field.
He said he came here nineteen years ago. There were three
hospitals and one home health agency that had never turned away a
patient because of the inability to pay. Today there's one
hospital and one home health agency, and he said he thought that's
why we to
all he hadeto say, butahemake wouldebeehappyvtoyanswerHe said questi ns. is
Commissioner Madison inquired if Mr. Nunnery was implying that
Davis Community Hospital turns away people that do not have the
ability to pay. Mr. Nunnery said he had people tell him on a
regular basis about the difficulty of getting care at the other
hospital.