Baptist/St. Thomas hospitals call off talks
One year's work hits snag
Nearly a year after Baptist and St. Thomas hospitals announced plans to consolidate, the two not-for-profit entities have officially called off talks.
The development, which was announced Wednesday, takes place only two weeks after the Nashville Scene reported that top St. Thomas officials were upset over several positions that Baptist had adopted in the negotiation process.
One bone of contention had been a decision by Stringfield and his negotiators for Baptist to oppose the appointment of St. Thomas president John Tighe to become the permanent CEO of the hospitals’ merged entity.
And, St. Thomas negotiators were upset that Baptist had recently awarded lucrative packages to some 40 top hospital executives, which called for them to be paid considerable sums should their jobs be eliminated. That meant Baptist had put itself—and its employees—in a much more favorable position than the St. Thomas employees after the new combined network would be formed.
The hospitals originally announced their plans to form the new health care network in July, 1997.
Readers interested in additional stories on Baptist Hospital can search on this web site for “King David: Power and Paranoia at Baptist Hospital,” which ran in the July 3, 1997, edition of the Nashville Scene. A more recent story about the stalled Baptist and St. Thomas merger talks ran in the April 30, 1998, edition of the Scene.
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