RMC scaling back operations at Jacksonville hospital

Regional Medical Center officials announced  this week said they have begun combining units at RMC Jacksonville with the main hospital campus in Anniston.  The intensive care unit at RMC Jacksonville, and that the hospital’s obstetrics services are being combined with those at the main campus in Anniston.  RMC President and CEO David McCormack  did not specify how many staff members will be affected by the change. McCormack said that with federal spending cuts and reductions in the reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid, the nonprofit hospital system must look for ways to increase efficiency. Administrators felt that because most women in the area go to RMC’s main campus for obstetrics and gynecology services, and because most of the system’s doctors in that field work in Anniston, combining the departments would be cost effective.