Hospital Staff Gets Termination Notices
Employees who have been on tenterhooks for months about the future of their jobs at Westlake Medical Center received notice Thursday that their contracts will be terminated as of July 1.
Whether the hospital’s 283 full- and part-time employees find themselves on the street that day hinges on negotiations underway between current owner Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. and a potential buyer, Salick Health Care.
A spokesman for Los Angeles-based Salick, which leases space at Westlake hospital for a cancer outpatient center, declined to comment on the negotiations Thursday.
But Salick officials have said they would like to purchase the 24-year-old hospital to expand its operations.
The two corporations have not been able to agree on a price for the hospital, although Columbia spokeswoman Kris Carraway said the hope is that the negotiations and sale will be completed by July 1.
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