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Governor Dan McKee did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
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Rhode Island Department of Health<\/p>\n
The Director of Health, Jerome Larkin, said in a statement, \u201cWe remain committed to ensuring that Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital stay open and operational. This is critical for the patients in these hospitals\u2019 communities, and for the stability of Rhode Island\u2019s healthcare system overall. This matter remains before the bankruptcy court. No decision has been made on this motion. In continuing to work with all parties involved, we will support filings in opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n
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CharterCARE<\/p>\n
\u201cIn response to Prospect Medical’s filing with the bankruptcy court an intent to close the CharterCARE hospitals by December 31, 2025.\u00a0 This filing has no immediate impact on CharterCARE hospitals; they are fully operational, census remains high, and employees are reporting for work just like any normal day. Centurion and all parties, including state leaders, continue to work diligently on a financing plan that will result in a sale close before the proposed notice date.\u00a0 And on a related note, we again urge the CharterCARE Foundation to act immediately to transfer the charitable assets back to these hospitals as their donors intended,\u201d said Otis Brown, a spokesperson for Centurion.<\/p>\n
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Nurses\u2019 Union (UNAP)<\/p>\n
The United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP), a union representing almost 1,200 employees at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, Roger Williams Medical Center, and Prospect Home Health and Hospice, said in a statement that they were calling \u201con state leaders to take any and all actions necessary to keep these hospitals and health care facilities operational. The union\u2019s call to action is in response to Prospect Medical Holdings filing a court motion to close these two hospitals or transfer them to the state. The union also again called on CharterCARE Foundation to pony up the $6 million in charitable assets they are holding in order to help close the Centurion deal.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chris Callaci, UNAP\u2019s General Counsel, stated,\u00a0\u201cIt will be an all out catastrophe for Rhode Island\u2019s health care system if these important community hospitals and health care facilities close down. Our system doesn\u2019t have the capacity to treat the patients who will be displaced in the event of closure, and Rhode Island\u2019s other hospitals will be completely overwhelmed with a flood of new patients. Thousands of nurses and other health professionals will lose their jobs. That\u2019s why we are calling on state leaders \u2013\u00a0the Governor, the Senate President, and the Speaker of the House \u2013 to take urgent and immediate action to keep\u00a0Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, Roger Williams Medical Center, and Prospect Home Health and Hospice open and operational. There is no better use of state funds than using them to ensure these hospitals stay open and our health care system doesn\u2019t collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Callaci continued, \u201cWe are also again calling on CharterCARE Foundation to pony up the $6 million in charitable assets they are holding in order to help close the Centurion deal. There is no more time for deliberation. It\u2019s time to put the self-interest aside and move this money now. The fate of these hospitals, 2,500 health care jobs, and tens of thousands of Rhode Island patients depends on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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