New St. Mark’s Owner Is Interested in Reopening the Facility as a Hospital

La Grange City Manager Jack Thompson said he has had “very preliminary” conversations the new owner of St. Mark’s Medical Center. That owner, Mark. M. Young Sr. of Atlanta (who snagged the shuttered hospital in a federal note sale for $806,199.42 last month) sent some representatives to La Grange last week to check out the hospital, which closed last Oct. because of financial woes. Thompson said the two important takeaways he got from their conversation was that the new owner “very much would like it to be a hospital again” and that he is in the very early “due diligence” stage of his plans for the facility. – Jeff Wick