Future of EA Conway Hospital Dominates Community Meeting
By: Staff
Updated: March 8, 2013
The future of EA Conway Hospital was the topic of a community meeting Thursday night in Monroe.
State Representative Katrina Jackson was on hand to take questions from audience members and talk about funding for the hospital.
Right now in Governor Jindal's proposed budget, EA Conway is on only funded for the first three months of the upcoming fiscal year.
The governor's office is hoping for a private hospital system will take over operations at ea Conway similar to other formerly state run hospitals.
But Rep. Jackson says what they're hoping for is risky.
"This is the question that no one can answer. We don't know, there's not an agreement. It was a very bold move to only fund EA Conway for three or four months and you don't yet have an agreement" said Rep. Katrina Jackson.
LSU officials in Shreveport are in charge of negotiating the private-public partnership for EA Conway.
They're currently in talks with St. Francis Medical Center.
State Representative Katrina Jackson was on hand to take questions from audience members and talk about funding for the hospital.
Right now in Governor Jindal's proposed budget, EA Conway is on only funded for the first three months of the upcoming fiscal year.
The governor's office is hoping for a private hospital system will take over operations at ea Conway similar to other formerly state run hospitals.
But Rep. Jackson says what they're hoping for is risky.
"This is the question that no one can answer. We don't know, there's not an agreement. It was a very bold move to only fund EA Conway for three or four months and you don't yet have an agreement" said Rep. Katrina Jackson.
LSU officials in Shreveport are in charge of negotiating the private-public partnership for EA Conway.
They're currently in talks with St. Francis Medical Center.
