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Single hospital seeks partner: Kessler can't go at it alone

By ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL Staff Writer, 609-272-7227

Published: Jan 06, 2009

HAMMONTON - William B. Kessler Memorial Hospital will remain open past its fundraising deadline of Jan. 16 as its administration tries to negotiate a partnership with another health care provider, the Atlantic County hospital announced Monday.

Kessler has abandoned its community loan drive and is paying the money back, interim Chief Executive Officer Jim Rossi said. Obtaining
$5 million from private lenders would have guaranteed an additional $7 million in bank financing for the hospital's revitalization effort, but less than
$2 million was pledged.

"It's just too small of a town, and the economy's too crappy," Rossi said.

More than 450 employees were told Monday the hospital's future "is still very uncertain." Rossi declined to establish a new deadline for Kessler's survival. "We're trying to come up with all the options within the next week or 10 days," he said. More

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