Boone County Hospital Board of Trustees releases five options for future operations

The Boone County Hospital Board of Trustees has released the five options for ongoing operations at the Boone Hospital Center on Thursday. The options are:

— Establishing another lease agreement with BJC HealthCare (St. Louis, Missouri),

— Entering into a lease with Duke LifePoint Healthcare (a joint venture between Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina and LifePoint Health, Brentwood, Tennessee),

— Developing a partnership with University of Missouri Health Care (“MU Health Care”, Columbia, Missouri),

— Entering into a lease with Saint Luke’s Health System (Kansas City, Missouri), or

— Operating Boone Hospital Center on a stand-alone basis, with the Trustees possibly entering into a lease agreement with a newly created, not-for-profit hospital governing board comprised of local leaders.

You can see the entire release here: