By Pat Culverhouse

A planned special meeting of the Webster Parish Police Jury to discuss financial problems at Minden Medical Center has been postponed until a later date.

Police Jury President Jim Bonsall said the meeting, which had been set for Wednesday with Minden Medical Center CEO Keith Cox, will be rescheduled pending a report from the Louisiana Dept. of Hospitals.

“We don’t anticipate the state hospital department’s review will take long,” Bonsall said. “When we get their findings, we will be able to ask the right questions.”

Bonsall said the police jury will schedule Cox and, hopefully, officials from the hospital’s management company, Allegiance Health Management of Bossier City, at a future jury meeting.

Police Jury members passed a resolution at the June 2 meeting to request a state review of MMC. A similar resolution was passed earlier this year by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury concerning Ruston’s Northern Louisiana Medical Center. Results of that review were reported this week. 

“We were told that the state acted on Lincoln Parish’s resolution about two weeks after it was received, so we don’t think we should have to wait too long to know something,” Bonsall said.

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