{"id":33217,"date":"2023-06-28T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hospital-board-meeting-to-discuss-updates-to-the-hospital-and-birthing-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:07:11","slug":"hospital-board-meeting-to-discuss-updates-to-the-hospital-and-birthing-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hospital-board-meeting-to-discuss-updates-to-the-hospital-and-birthing-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital board meeting to discuss updates to the hospital and birthing center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=109f55cf-8633-4796-8c20-8f475e163fce&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"950\" alt=\"Southwest Memorial Hospital offers a strong diabetes education program. (Photo by Southwest Health System)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Memorial Hospital offers a strong diabetes education program. (Photo by Southwest Health System)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Southwest Health System<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Southwest Hospital System board will hold a meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday for an update from the community and the board about the state of the hospital and status of the birthing center.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes after the June 19 announcement that the Southwest Memorial Hospital birthing center would remain open, despite a news release that declared its impending closure on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>The birthing center would have taken its last laboring patient on June 28, before fully closing July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement that the birthing center would remain open, the hospital also announced its new CEO Joe Theine on June 20, following the resignation of interim CEO David Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, community members and retired physician Kent Akin addressed the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners, which was followed by a presentation by representatives from the SHS board and \u201cinterim interim\u201d CEO Gene Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners expressed their concerns about the direction the hospital was headed, and requested a meeting with both hospital boards.<\/p>\n<p>The board meeting Wednesday, June 28 at 5 p.m. is open to the community.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-859bf3ef81b880310f5bdb6aeacad6a0\">The Journal will cover tonight\u2019s meeting and provide more information when available<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting follows reversal of center\u2019s closure and announcement of a new CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,60,109,29,210,538],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-county-commissioner","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-health-system","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82108,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217\/revisions\/82108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33217"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}