OCH begins meetings with affiliation partners
OCH Regional Medical Center’s Board of Trustees began a trio of meetings with possible affiliation partners on Tuesday.
Hilton retiring from OCH
OCH Regional Medical Center CEO Richard Hilton announced his retirement Wednesday after more than three decades with the hospital.
OCH trustees begin affiliation considerations
The OCH Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees is moving along in the process of deciding how the hospital may pursue an affiliation with another system.
Man gets 25 years for sexually assaulting minor in OCH bathroom
A Starkville man who sexually assaulted a child in a bathroom at OCH Regional Medical Center pleaded guilty to a sexual battery charge in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Three systems pitching affiliation to OCH
Three hospital systems have expressed interest in affiliating with OCH Regional Medical Center, the Starkville hospital’s CEO, Richard Hilton, announced at a trustees meeting Tuesday evening.
Photo: OCH’s first baby of 2018
Chase Connor Shirk was the first baby of 2018 born at OCH Regional Medical Center. Born at 5:01 a.m. Monday, he weighs eight pounds, 13 ounces and is 21-1/4 inches long. Chase’s parents are Steven and Shanna Shirk.
Oktibbeha supes seek AG opinion on hospital sale moratorium
Oktibbeha County supervisors will seek a Mississippi Attorney General’s opinion on whether they can impose a moratorium on further county efforts to sell OCH Regional Medical Center after last week’s special election halted their efforts to sell.
Trainer delays OCH board appointment to avoid ‘a mess’
The OCH Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees is going to ask a county supervisor to fill a board post that’s been vacant for three years.
Trustees OK Hilton to gather information on affiliation
OCH Regional Medical Center CEO Richard Hilton will contact three hospital system CEOs to see if the hospital should consider an affiliation.
OCH voters to county supervisors: ‘No sale’
OCH Regional Medical Center will remain a county owned hospital after Oktibbeha County’s voters chose to oppose the facility’s sale.
Complaint filed with AG against Nothing but the Facts
A group advocating to keep OCH Regional Medical Center publicly owned is not taking recent advertising by its opposition lying down.
Unregistered groups wade into hospital sale issue
A central Mississippi woman has spent thousands of dollars trying to influence Oktibbeha County voters to allow the sale of OCH Regional Medical Center.
Our View: Underhanded campaigns sully hospital sale referendum
On Tuesday, voters in Oktibbeha County will go to the polls to decide if the county can sell the county-owned OCH Regional Medical Center. The vote, it is thought, will bring to an end a long and emotionally charged debate.
Baptist points to past success in pitch for OCH
For those who are concerned about what Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation might do if it purchases OCH Regional Medical Center, system President and CEO Jason Little suggested to look at the system’s past to get an idea of OCH’s possible future.
NMMC CEO: OCH can be southern anchor for system
Should North Mississippi Health Services purchase OCH Regional Medical Center, the system hopes to turn the currently county-owned hospital into its southern anchor facility.
OCH bidder forums begin tonight
A pair of informational sessions from two nonprofit hospital systems that have submitted proposals to purchase OCH Regional Medical Center will begin this evening.
Supes announce hospital bidder forums
Oktibbeha County supervisors unanimously approved setting two special called meetings next week to allow bidders on OCH Regional Medical Center to present information about themselves to the public.
Supervisor responds to public criticism by taking polygraph
An Oktibbeha County supervisor who openly supports selling OCH Regional Medical Center has gone to extraordinary lengths in an effort to prove she’s not deliberately misleading voters for personal gain.
Hilton: OCH may consider system affiliation
OCH Regional Medical Center CEO Richard Hilton revealed during a Greater Starkville Development Partnership-hosted forum Wednesday that the CEOs of two major hospital systems approached him about a possible affiliation with the hospital last year.
Oktibbeha County hospital forum set for Wed.
The Greater Starkville Development Partnership will host a Wednesday evening informational forum about the November OCH Regional Medical Center referendum.