Baptist Health Care’s $16M taxpayer bailout smacks of fiscal irresponsibility

Baptist Health Care’s strategic oversight (or strategic avoidance) has left us all holding the bag. In the latest episode of corporate shortsightedness meets taxpayer exploitation, we find Baptist Health Care executing a masterclass in dodging fiscal responsibility for the mess it’s left behind in Pensacola. The regional health system moved its main hospital campus to greener (and wealthier) pastures, leaving taxpayers on the hook for an estimated $16.4 million tab to demolish its old E Street campus.

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