Dateline: October 25, 2007

Board accepts bid for nursing home 

The Donley County Hospital Board accepted a $1.25 million bid for the Medical Center Nursing Home during a called meeting Tuesday night.

The lone bid came from Community Care Management Services based in Denton under the name of Clarendon Realty, LTD.

The hospital district must still receive approval for the deal from its financial advisor, bond counsel, and the company that sold the bonds to remodel the nursing home.

After those conditions are met, the district would proceed with final contract negotiations.

Funds from the sale of the nursing home would be put in escrow to pay off the bonds owed on the facility.

The purchase would include MCNH, the Community Services Building, and five acres of land for future development.

No representatives from Community Care were present at Tuesday’s meeting.

The firm’s website bills the company as “the premier nursing care management firm in Texas” and lists nursing homes in Stamford, Fort Worth, and Mineola.

Acceptance of the bid came one week after the hospital board’s regular meeting at which the district awarded a $373,234 contract to Kelly Wood Company to add four semi-private rooms to the nursing home’s west wing.

District officials said the pending sale of the facility will not affect that project, and the cost of the addition is included in the sale price.

Kelly Wood was one of six bidders on the project. Construction on the expansion will begin Monday and should be completed within 140 days.

In other district business last week, Administrator Vicky Robertson reported a census of 51 residents in the nursing home and said the ambulance service received 69 calls in September.

Holly Eads gave the indigent care report. The district’s outstanding liability for indigent expenses was $4,471.92, and indigent expenses for September totaled $7,020.83.