Birmingham: Jeffco can shutdown Cooper Green services but.... - ABC 33/40 - Birmingham News, Weather, Sports

Birmingham: Jeffco can shutdown Cooper Green services but....

Posted: Updated:
BIRMINGHAM - AL -

Attorneys for the City of Birmingham told a bankruptcy judge Jefferson County may have the ability to shutdown inpatient and emergency room services at Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, but a failure to establish a transition plan for indigent patients is a problem. That's why it asked the court to keep the county from shutting down services in December as planned.

Birmingham is suing the county in an effort to keep services going at the hospital. The judge warned Birmingham's attorneys that the city may be forced to pay the county's legal bill.

 

  • U.S. & World News

  • Under the watchful eye of stern-faced American advisers, hundreds of U.S.-trained Jordanian commandos fanned across this dusty desert plain, holding war games that could eventually form the basis of an assault in...
    In a June 18 story about U.S.-led war games in Jordan, The Associated Press reported erroneously the organization that employs Tawfiq Hennawi. He works for the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, not the International...

  • Supporters of a far-reaching immigration bill in the Senate see fresh momentum from a report by the Congressional Budget Office that the measure would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits by billions of...
    Supporters of a far-reaching immigration bill in the Senate see fresh momentum from a report by the Congressional Budget Office that says the measure would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits by billions of dollars.

  • Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament - people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get...
    Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil early Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and high prices.

  • President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in Berlin Wednesday.
    Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of...

  • Iceland says a WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country.
    A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said Wednesday.
Most Popular
Stories
Videos
loading...