Reader Comments

" I was a patient of Dr Jessica Bocook and cannot find where she has moved to. If anybody knows, PLEASE let me know. "

" Someone needs to buy Bracken HealthPoint office and set up a good, caring health clinic, Bracken needs physicians and health care. Get Dr. Marksbery and good family physicians to care for these patients. Let's get the ball rolling, Please. "

" I do not understand the economic issue that is blamed for closing health pointe. I have since the two doctors left continued to go to health pointe and had the same issues of being able to get an appt. or being told to come and they would get me in and then set for long periods of time.

I think the issue is as with most non-profit agencies they can't keep staff due to the low salaries they pay and the disrespect they show their employees. "

" This message is for "open your eyes"-- your idea to blame Primary Plus for Healthpoints downfall is ridiculous. You can not "steal" patients or Physicians for that matter unless they are wanting to go. Get a life! "

" augusta girl. dr. cummins was a very good dr. and so is dr. marksberry. and i pray that dr. marksberry finds a drs. office where his patients can go back to him. hes a very special person. and very concerened about his patients. he does listen to your problems about your health and he will help. god bless and i pray that dr. marksberry finds it in his heart to find a way for his patients. but im sure he will. because he cares. "

" I read a post about the closing of Health Point at kypost.com. They indicated the reasons as being economics and lack of a strong community patient base. If patients were not happy with Health Point and went elsewhere for care then why not find out where the patients went and contact them to see if they might be interested in opening an office in Bracken County. If that happens then everyone will have a medical facility back in their home area that will satisfy their medical needs. "

" I am a patient of Dr Neus and followed him to Primary Plus. The staff there and the new office are wonderful. I give them my highest reccomendations and would love to see Primary Plus with a presence in Bracken county. We need good doctors who are well supported and have plenty of good help. "

" If the patient was happy with Health point and the staff and DOC's ....why did they leave!!! they had to be unhappy to go and search for another healthcare provider...Primary Plus is not perfect but they do try and figure out how to help the people in all of the surronding counties!!! "

" Saddened for the community but not surprised. HP had the chance to keep their past staff and physicians. It's not about money,the newer staff only got a taste of "Administrative Tactics". These were dedicated staff and physicians who gave their hearts, it wasn't just a paycheck. God created special people to take care others and it was not Chris Goddard who made Healthpoint, it was the staff/phys. Karma will come back and bite you in the butt and that is exactly what it did, as we all know these words, "you too can be replaced". You destroyed 9 yrs of hard work in less than 1 year. "

" Primary Plus didn't steal any physicians nor did they cause the problem in the first place. Stop for just a second and think about that. Look how Health Point treated staff and patients when they shut the doors. Did the possibility every cross your mind that the doctors left because of the way Health Point treated them? Health Point knew a long time prior to actually closing the doors that this was the plan. They had new doctors on their staff and they had PLENTY of patients. They just DON"T CARE!!!!!!!!!! "

" EVERYONE TAKE NOTICE. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY. WHEN WE HAD DR. CUMMINIS IN BROOKSVILLE; KY. HE WAS THE DR. IF YOU HAD MONEY OR NOT HE WOULD SEE YOU. HE CARED ABOUT HIS PATIENTS. HE DIDNT HAVE A BIG COMPANY TELLING HIM WHAT TO DO. DR. MARKSBERY PUTS ME IN THE MIND OF DR. CUMMINS. HE CARES ABOUT HIS PATIENTS. HEALTH POINT OR PRIMARY PLUS REALLY DONT CARE ALL THEY SEE IS DOLLAR SIGNS. THAT SAD TO. ITS HARD TO FIND A DR. THAT WILL SIT AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT WHATS WRONG WITH YOU. AND REALLY CARE. NOW WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSE TO DO? THE HOSPITAL IS JUST AS BAD. YOU DONT GOT MONEY. OR INSURANCE NO ONE WANTS TO LOOK AT YOU. "

" I hope Ann Thomas reads all this and
realizes what is a slap in the face this is for the generous Moloney family
and certainly has some control over what
happens to this site. "

" One of the health care providers who went to Primary Plus last winter told me that Primary Plus wasn't afraid to spend the money to pay their staff a decent wage and also to spend the money to insure that the patients got the best health care they could provide for them. So quit blaming Primary Plus for this mess-- the former Health Point staff members went to P.P. because they were treated like people instead of nothing and they were concerned about better patient care, not the money. By the way, where has all the money gone? Shouldn't Health Point have to account to someone about the grants they received and the fees they collected? "

" This is to Peggy, one of the MA's at HealthPoint. I'm sorry to hear this is happening to you and your co-workers. I wish you the best of luck in securing other employment. I know you are a very caring, concerned person and they will be losing a valuable employee. And that's their loss. Good luck to the rest of the staff also. "

" As an ex-employee I am very concerned who gets the site. We were trying to help our patients even as we were being told to get out and for someone without the same ideas to come into the county is just wrong. Primary Plus recruited your previous docs away and left part of the void that was our demise. To not have someone come in that the people can trust is just wrong. We as employees were lyed to for a long time by Healthpoint and for someone that does the same things to come in is just wrong! We need someone that cares about our community and loves it just as much as we do!! Primary Plus is not it!!! "

" What a terrible shame for the people in Bracken County to be treated so disrepectful..Why on earth would any provider or patient or staff want to go down the road to another one of their facilities and get more of the same?.We are not dumb as rocks in Bracken County altho have been treated as such by this administration. His baby....what a joke!
He sure messed up a lot of good peoples lives in such a short period of time, when they knew some time ago of their plans..so unfair and uncaring, this is not what healthcare is supposed to be..Mission statements! Just empty words. You let a wonderful family donate the land for this facility, who did so in memory of their families and it served you well as long as it filled your pocket and now look what happened. "

" I would like to thank Chele for her kind words. I am glad to see that our patients are getting their medical needs met. I worry so much about our patients. I stay awake at night thinking of them and all of the things that need to be done. However, I can no longer help. I want the patients of Bracken to know that I will miss working with them. My heart has
grown to love my job and the patients I
have worked with these past ten months.
I apologize for HealthPoint, even if they do not. "

" Can't you see. It was Primary Plus that stole HealthPoint's doctors and business. Prior to them coming along HealthPoints office was fine. It was Primary Plus that created all of this. They stole the doctors and all of the staff. HealthPoint opened in Bracken County to help it's people, because they did care. It was a risk to them. Once the office was solid and successful Primary Plus opened 10 miles away and immediately started stealing the practices that HealthPoint supported and all the work they had done. If you're going to blame someone, blame Primary Plus. They didn't care to work with HealthPoint. It's a fact. They have finally got what they wanted all along. They have shut down the competition. All they care about is expanding their empire. If they really cared about the patients they would have worked with HealthPoint. They didn't. They set out to steal their business and they did. "

" I also tried to get to the HealthPoint website comment center and could not do so. How convenient for them. BC will rebound from this. I just hope the local news channels get word of this so word can be spread about how HealthPoint horribly handled this situation. Maybe they would find themselves looking for jobs in the very near future. "

" I want to say thank you to everyone at Primary Plus. I called because my husband will shortly run out of BP meds and they were wonderful. Through all of the caos they are stepping up to the plate to help all of the Bracken County residents that Health Point just tossed aside. I went to HealthPoints website and to the comment Center to try to get answers and guess what, the link is not working. Go figure. I have every intention of contacting United Way, who supplies help to HealthPoint and see what their reaction is. I am also going to find out if United way is going to continue to support them, and if that is the case I WILL NEVER again donate to the organization. I will also have the weekly contributions I have taken out of my check now stopped. My heart goes out to the employees and I will pray for them all to find new positions quickly. "