The legal battle over Elmore County Hospital is heating up with accusations of conspiracy and conflicts of interest.
In a filing last Thursday, Ivy Creek Healthcare, which leases the hospital from the Elmore County Healthcare Authority through 2030, accused the Elmore County Economic Development Authority of "tortious interference" for secretly planning to replace it with Baptist Health of Montgomery.
Emails attached to the filing show that Baptist Health's CEO received an advance draft of a proposal request. They also show that in September 2025, Probate Judge Jason Britt asked how ECEDA was handling the proposal, which began in 2024 as Project Mercury, and why the ECHA wasn't involved sooner.
Ivy Creek's latest filing supported an earlier motion to subpoena Jackson Thornton, a Montgomery accounting firm, to determine ECEDA's funding.
"Such information is relevant to ECEDA's motivation for interfering with Ivy Creek's business relations… The information sought by Ivy Creek is relevant to the defense of justification," Ivy Creek wrote in its filing. "...ECEDA is a shadowy organization whose finances and operations are not subject to public scrutiny."
After asking the court to deny the subpoenas, ECEDA filed a response to Ivy Creek last...
The legal battle over Elmore County Hospital is heating up with accusations of conspiracy and conflicts of interest. In a filing last Thursday, Ivy Creek Healthcare, which leases the hospital from...