As Bon Secours evaluates how best to strengthen hospitals and healthcare facilities facing challenges like declining censuses and lower patient volume, my office will remain engaged with their team and with the community as those plans take shape
Will remain engaged with Bon Secours and the Franklin and Western Tidewater communities as plans for Southampton Memorial Hospital take shape.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Kiggans visited Bon Secours Southampton Memorial Hospital in Franklin, met with hospital leadership and healthcare professionals, discussed the hospital's role in Western Tidewater, and said her office would remain engaged with Bon Secours and the community as plans take shape.
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The Virginia Joint Commission on Health Care report identifies Bon Secours Southampton Memorial Hospital as at immediate risk of closure and highest risk of financial distress, with internal data showing the facility staffs 20 acute care inpatient beds out of 90 licensed beds and maintains roughly 15,000 annual emergency department visits.
Assessments
Kiggans has same-term evidence of engagement: she visited Bon Secours Southampton Memorial Hospital, met with hospital leadership and health professionals, and discussed the hospital's role in Franklin and Western Tidewater. However, the promise was forward-looking and ongoing, and the evidence does not show sustained follow-up or a completed oversight outcome as plans continue to develop. This supports partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.