Lakeview Regional Medical Center patients and employees tin expect a “seamless transition” nether LCMC Health’s precocious announced program to get the Covington-area infirmary arsenic portion of a $150 million, multihospital deal.
Greg Feirn, LCMC’s main enforcement officer, said the projected merchantability volition make a concern that volition upgrade wellness attraction crossed the northbound enactment and successful different areas astir New Orleans.
“LCMC is excited to grow our services to the northbound enactment to heighten diligent attraction and invited caller patients,” Feirn said successful a connection issued to The St. Tammany Farmer.
Announced past month, the program calls for the nonprofit LCMC to get Lakeview Regional, Tulane Medical Center successful New Orleans and Tulane Lakeside Hospital successful Metairie from nationalist concatenation HCA Healthcare by the extremity of 2022. The statement is babelike connected support from the authorities Attorney General's Office.
Under the projected merchantability agreement, LCMC volition wage HCA $150 cardinal and has agreed to put a full of $220 cardinal successful the facilities astatine Lakeview Regional, Tulane Lakeside and East Jefferson General Hospital.
LCMA could not accidental however overmuch of that concern would beryllium made astatine Lakeview. However, Feirn pointed to the healthcare network’s past of investing successful its hospitals, including University Medical Center successful New Orleans and New Orleans East Hospital aft Hurricane Katrina arsenic impervious of its committedness to put successful the communities it serves.
The strategy has besides invested millions of dollars successful its different facilities, which see Children’s Hospital and Touro Infirmary successful New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Center successful Marrero and East Jefferson General Hospital successful Metairie, Feirn said.
Feirn said summation details connected the $220 cardinal concern successful the 3 hospitals to beryllium acquired nether the concern woody volition beryllium made disposable wrong the adjacent 12 to 24 months.
There volition beryllium nary contiguous changes successful the cognition of Lakeview Regional and the different 3 hospitals. Employees astatine each 3 hospitals volition proceed to person jobs nether the plan, LCMC officials said.
Established successful 1977, Lakeview Regional is simply a 167-bed, full-service, acute-care infirmary that employs astir 800 people. Its exigency section is the lone level 2 trauma halfway successful St. Tammany Parish, offering 24-hour attraction by a multidisciplinary squad of board-certified physicians.
LCMC began arsenic Louisiana Children’s Medical Center successful 1955, operating arsenic a 53-bed infirmary during the polio epidemic. At the time, it was known arsenic the Crippled Children’s Hospital. It was renamed LCMC inn 1975 and expanded into a full-service hospital.
In 2009, LCMC began buying and operating different hospitals successful the New Orleans area. The pending acquisition would grow its footprint successful the New Orleans country from six to 9 hospitals.
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