City HallThursday, November 12
Boone County commissioners are expected to vote Thursday on a Boone Hospital resolution
The Daily Columbia team
If you follow the Boone Hospital story, Thursday is the day to watch. Boone County commissioners meet at 1:30 p.m. and are expected to vote on a resolution involving the potential sale of Boone Hospital Center. Boone Health leaders urged them this week to approve the deal.
1:30 p.m.when county commissioners meet Thursday
They're expected to vote on a resolution involving the potential sale of Boone Hospital Center.
Source: 93.9 The Eagle
- Up for sale: the hospital and most operating assets
- Boone Health's pitch: bring in capital, preserve jobs and current pay
- Boone Health officials say the deal would maintain charity-care policies
REDI's 2025 statistics show Boone Health has 1,400 employees in Columbia/Boone County, making it the seventh-largest employer here. Mike Murphy, the publisher of Comobuz, broke the story, and 939 the Eagle quotes Boone Health officials on what the deal would do.
Boone Health employs 1,400 as REDI touts four-way air service
- 1,400
- Boone Health employees in Columbia/Boone County
- 7th
- largest employer here, per 2025 REDI statistics
- 4
- flight directions: Chicago, Denver, Charlotte and Dallas
Sources: 93.9 The Eagle, KWOS
Also from REDI: president Paul Eisenstein says Columbia has flights in all four directions. He spoke after REDI's recent 38th annual meeting at Memorial Stadium. On landing jobs, he says, "Let's go get them but we've got to work together to do that."
Sources: 93.9 The Eagle, KWOS