By Justin Averette
A rural Alabama hospital has been given new life after entering into a management agreement with UAB Medicine.
The 60-year-old J. Paul Jones Hospital in Camden announced in August that it would be forced to close later in the year because of rising costs and other financial reasons. Without a local hospital, Wilcox County residents would have to drive 45 minutes or longer to the next closest one in Selma, Greenville, Grove Hill or Monroeville.
Paul Jones kept operating until November, when its board of trustees announced talks with UAB Health System about a management agreement between the two entities.“Small hospitals, in particular those in Alabama’s underserved, rural counties, are under tremendous financial pressure,” said Will Ferniany, Ph.D., CEO of the UAB Health System. “We believe it is part of the UAB Medicine mission to help provide assistance to hospitals throughout the state and to do what we can to ensure the survival of these rural hospitals.”
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