Jennie Stuart Health has scheduled meetings on Monday, Oct. 14, with several community members and elected officials who want the Hopkinsville hospital to delay, and possibly abandon, plans to affiliate with Evansville, Indiana-based Deaconess Health.
Deaconess CEO Shawn McCoy will attend the meetings, according to a letter from Jennie Stuart board chair Leslie Carroll to Christian County Judge-Executive Jerry Gilliam, Hopkinsville Mayor James R. Knight Jr. and Hopkinsville resident Theresa Nichol, who chairs the recently formed Save Jennie Stuart Inc.
Gilliam and Knight confirmed that they plan to attend a meeting at 11:30 a.m. at Jennie Stuart Medical Center. Nichol said she and three others working with Save Jennie Stuart — retired bank executive Darrell Gustafson, former mayor Dan Kemp and attorney Craig Richardson — were invited to a meeting at 9:30 a.m. Nichol, Gustafson and Kemp are all former hospital board members. Hoptown Chronicle asked to attend one of the sessions. The request was denied. Carroll said Jennie Stuart plans to have open sessions at a later date.