Article - May 30, 2008 - Gallup Independent
RMCH sells its dialysis operation
By Bill Donovan
GALLUP — For more than 20 years, residents of this area relied on the doctors at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital to provide dialysis care.
But come this fall, the hospital will be turning over that responsibility to a private company being formed by local doctors.
“This is a win-win situation,” said Chuck Wright, the hospital’s CEO who headed a news conference in the hospital’s library Thursday to announce the changeover.
It’s a win situation for the hospital, he said, because it turns over the billing for the dialysis services to the new company, which will be called Red Rock Dialysis.
Wright pointed out that the hospital has been experiencing problems in its billing services for years and billing for dialysis services is a complicated procedure.
The doctors, headed by Dr. James Whitfield and Dr. Oladipo Adeniyi, both of whom are nephrologists and have treated kidney diseases here for years, have also agreed to buy out the hospital’s dialysis operation.
Wright said the value of the hospital’s operation is still being appraised, but he estimated that the hospital will receive $1.5 million and up.
It’s a win situation for the doctors, he said, because it will end some of the “frustrations” they have felt with the current operations.
“We will benefit financially from this,” he said. “They will benefit financially from this as well.”
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