The powerful Board of Public Works is slated to vote Wednesday on the future of the aging public hospital in Western Maryland.
The powerful three-member Board of Public Works, which includes the governor, is scheduled Wednesday to vote on expediting contracts that would outsource key functions of the public, long-term-care hospital, which cares for patients with complex conditions who often have been turned away from private facilities.
Contracts slated to come before Hogan , Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Dereck E. Davis, who are Democrats, on Wednesday would move core services provided at the hospital to other facilities, which union officials say ultimately will shutter Western Maryland Hospital Center.under consideration Wednesday ask bidders to submit proposals for skilled nursing, long-term acute care and brain injury services at a cost of $107 million to $128 million over five years.
The union represents about 120 of the hospital’s 200 employees, union officials said. It was not clear how many jobs would be impacted. Mike Ricci, a spokesman for Hogan, who is term limited and cannot seek reelection, said transferring services from the chronic care hospitals to community providers, from 2022 to 2026, is part of the administration’s“The state is in the process of implementing a public health facilities plan — released more than a year ago after extensive dialogue — to improve care and services for patients,” Ricci said in a statement.
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