In May, Hopkins County Memorial Hospital in Sulphur Springs, Texas, selected CHRISTUS Health, based in San Antonio, as its proposed partner in management and operations. Now, partnership negotiations could result in a new ASC, according to a KSST Radio report.
During a Hopkins County Memorial Hospital board meeting, CHRISTUS representatives raised ethical and religious directive questions focused on sterilization procedures performed in the hospital, according to the report.
CHRISTUS Health is a Catholic, faith-based, not-for-profit health system. The solution the two providers came to would shift these procedures to a new, $2 million ASC. The hospital is seeking help to fund the new project.