Baylor Scott and White Healthcare to divest from Llano facility
Phil Reynolds/The Highlander
The hospital facility, located at 200 W. Ollie St. in Llano, will be dropped from the Baylor Scott & White Healthcare System by the end of the year, leaving Llano County officials with the task of finding a new corporate hospital carrier.
By Phil Reynolds
Contributing Writer
The Llano County Hospital Authority board is looking for a new operator for the Llano hospital after Baylor Scott & White Healthcare officials told the county it would no longer operate the hospital.
The health system will end its lease on the hospital at the end of the year, hospital authority President Bob Wallace said at the board meeting Tuesday.
How that will affect Baylor Scott & White ambulance operations in the county is not clear; the health system operates the only ambulances in Llano County at present. That consists of ambulances in Llano, Kingsland and Buchanan Dam and a first-responder, or supervisor, vehicle in Llano. …
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