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I am for the move!

The move is unnecessary and unfair to all residents of Franklin County. The so-called "public" meeting of today at 2:30 PM eliminates working professional people. Also, no mention was made in N&O articles as to the owners of the property on which the proposed hospital is to be built.

Hopefully, the foreclosure crisis will eventually make UNC and Healthcare Management regret their decision to move Franklin Medical to Wake County via Youngsville. How many times were UNC and Healthcare Management going to keep trying to make this move, they just brought the issue up in December, now they're back at it again, what's changed? I guess they finally greased the right palms in the General Assembly and the move is a foregone conclusion. Moreover, how in the world can Healthcare Management require indigent people to sign a promissory note before they leave the hospital? What, they want to make sure they get reimbursed before a poor person may just happen to come into some money, that's despicable. UNC's and Healthcare Management's actions are far from Christian, I would even go so far as to say they're satanic. What goes around comes around.

Since they will probably do as planned the public should push for the promises of an Urgent Care/other health care, tobe in place before they move the hospital

Putting that new place anywhere else besides where the people are is going to kill their business. Wake county is going to keep stealing away all of the healthcare workers until there's nobody left to care for anybody. I heard there is not one of the over 100 docs on staff there that live in the county.

Did anybody notice that Dr. William "Al" Sayles said at the meeting yesterday? His quote in the News and Observer is pretty funny. He said in response to leaving the poorest people of the county, "Those are the people that are going to die on 401 going south to a hospital."

Sayles said he sees patients 1 day to 101 years old. Ha ha ha ha! ONLY IF YOU HAVE INSURANCE OR CASH, BECAUSE HE NO LONGER ACCEPTS MEDICARE OR MEDICAID PATIENTS! Nice research LaGrone!

HA HA HA HA! I love it!

That town is a joke and everyone of those people that spoke yesterday against it had a financial or political stake in the move but they blasted the company that owns the hospital for trying to survive! Go to the Franklin Times blog site. You'll know more about the situation from people on both sides that actually give a rat.

UNC, Rex and the for-profit hospital management company are hoping they can conceal their shameless profit motives long enough that state regulators will approve their self-serving proposal to relocate Franklin hospital. The testimony against this proposal at Wednesday's hearing was compelling. Replace the hospital, but leave it where it is. Neither Rex nor UNC has a pro-patient reputation.

The move is a have to do! The building is a dump and in order to bring back talented and professional HC workers, the hospital needs an ethical boost from Rex as well as a location boost being closer to WAae County.

Please be aware that mhoncho is part of HMA,Inc. He's been using 2 different ID's to push his point.

By the way, I believe you will find that Dr. Al Sayles currently has all the Medicare patients that government will allow.

More recently, the former mayor of Franklinton, now sits on the BODs @Franklin Regional. The "Tampa Business Journal" quotes one of the Franklin County Commissioners, Penny McGhee-Young (from the Franklinton area) as stating the hospital needed to be in a more affluent area. There has been more concern expressed for the people of Wake Forest than those located in other sections of Franklin Cty. Former CE @Franklin Regional, Ann Barnhart, is currently attempting to block a hospital from building a new facility for basically the same reason people in North/Northeastern parts of Franklin Cty are - already facilities in place (according to "The Business Journal."