U.S. Trustee Guy Gebhardt has asked a bankruptcy judge to half a "fire sale" by Hutcheson Medical Center of a clinic it owns at Trenton, Ga., the Chattanoogan reported today. Hutcheson, continuing to make cost-cutting measures, is seeking court approval to sell the Trenton Family Practice for $350,000. Gebhardt said that the hospital had failed to show that it was receiving a fair market value in the proposed sale to the Dade County Industrial Development Authority. The trustee said at the end of July the hospital had accumulated just over $5 million in new debt since going into the bankruptcy 10 months ago. He said it appears the hospital debt is now at $6.3 million.
