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Baptist merger costs county $1.07 million

Rick Outzen April 5, 2008

If Baptist mergers/buys West Florida Hospital and the Davis Highway complex becomes a non-profit entity, Escambia County will lose $1,070,436 in property taxes annually.

Not saying the merger/purchase is a bad thing, but the property tax base will shrink. County commissioners and the school board may need to cut another $1 million from their budgets.

Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”