The clock is ticking for now-closed Bowie (Texas) Memorial Hospital, as a viable bidder for the facility has yet to emerge.
Bowie Memorial closed last November. The hospital board had hoped to save the facility through the creation of a new hospital district, but the measure was nixed Nov. 3, 2015, when 53 percent of voters turned down the tax district.
Bowie Memorial's situation began to look up in December, when the board received two bids to purchase and reopen the hospital. The board entered into negotiations with a Houston-based company, but the deal fell through less than a month later.
With resources diminishing, the hospital board set a sale deadline of Feb. 15. When the Times Record News asked Bowie Memorial CEO Lynn Heller what would happen if no formal bids have been made when the deadline arrives, he said he expects to be instructed to sell off the hospital's equipment and pay as much as possible on bills.
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