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Hospital Board Meeting Recap

The Russell County Hospital board has voted unanimously to pursue a loan of almost three million dollars as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.    The board met yesterday afternoon via teleconferencing to consider the information […]

Hospital Board Meets Today

The Russell County Hospital Board of Directors will have a special called meeting this afternoon at 3:00 pm. The meeting will be via teleconference due to restrictions in place from the Coronavirus. The agenda item […]

Hospital Board of Directors Met Thursday Evening

 The Russell County Hospital Board of Directors held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening. The meeting was mostly centered around COVID-19 with some regular business addressed as well. It was also the first meeting […]

Local Hospital Names New CEO

The Russell County Hospital Board of Directors met last evening, and the big new coming out of the meeting is the hiring of a new CEO. The board announced that Patrick J. Branco will become […]

Hospital Board of Directors Met Wednesday

The Russell County Hospital Board of Directors met in special session on Wednesday afternoon. The only items on the agenda was an executive session concerning an appointment. WJRS News has learned the board continues to […]

Hospital Board Met Thursday

The Russell County Hospital’s audit report was given a “clean” and “unmodified” opinion by BKD Auditors for the previous fiscal year during last night’s monthly meeting of the facility’s board of directors. Outgoing CEO Scott […]