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Hospital changes name, ownership
By CHASE SQUIRES © St. Petersburg Times, published September 1, 2000 DADE CITY -- For the third time in three years, Dade City's hospital is changing its name. The announcement came Thursday as Naples-based Health Management Associates signed papers to cement the purchase of the 120-bed hospital from Tennessee-based HCA. Starting today, the hospital is now part of the Florida company's chain of hospitals, most in rural communities. With the sale, Pasco Community Hospital becomes Pasco Regional Medical Center, spokeswoman Julie Pacheco said. The hospital was known as Columbia Dade City Hospital in 1997, then simply Dade City Hospital and later Pasco Community Hospital in 1998. The new name better reflects the hospital's regional patient base, Pacheco said. "Really, we draw from so many different areas, it makes more sense," Pacheco said. "We have patients from Sumter, Hernando and Pasco counties." The hospital's new management team also officially takes over today. Chief Executive Officer Andrew C. Knizley and Chief Financial Officer Rosemary Brewer were announced earlier this summer and have been on site throughout the month, analyzing computer systems and the hospital's operations. Knizley, 37, replaces former CEO William Buck. Knizley most recently served as executive director of Williamson Memorial Hospital, a 76-bed acute care hospital in a West Virginia mountain town of about 4,200 that bills itself as the "Heart of the Billion-Dollar Coal Field." The town is on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. Brewer has been working as the financial officer at Natchez Community Hospital in Natchez, Miss., a city of about 20,000 in western Mississippi. She replaces Pasco Community Hospital chief financial officer Martha Finfrock. Pacheco, serving her last day on the job Thursday, said no date has been set for erecting signs reflecting the new name.
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