By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
There is a plan for Geary Community Hospital to move under the auspices of Stormont Vail Health in a lease agreement Jan. 1. In the meantime efforts are under way via a revenue bond issue to raise operating funds for GCH this year and make repairs to the facility.
Thursday night county commissioners will host a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. at the C. L. Hoover Opera House to explain the hospital topic. Commissioner Trish Giordano said they will talk to the public about the status of the hospital. "How we came to the agreement with Stormont Vail and how we are paying for that."
One goal of the meeting is clarification. I think there's a lot of rumors floating around out there and we want to show that Stormont Vail was the best option for our community to take."
Commissioner Keith Ascher said it will be an informational meeting on what the county is working on with the transfer of GCH to Stormont Vail. "So we gave a power point presentation for the public to take in and see."
Ascher noted that many people have been asking questions. "What's going on? This is our way of finally, because this has been such a fluid process, I think we finally have come to where we've got things finalized pretty much."